asherlangton

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by asherlangton 12y ago
The "acquisition" is rather questionable: https://twitter.com/asherlangton/status/575768324757266432 https://twitter.com/asherlangton/status/583509322946125824
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by asherlangton 12y ago
I should clarify: I don't think they're adding backdoors maliciously. It's their conduct -- proceeding despite the concerns raised, attacking critics, etc. -- that is greedy and malicious.
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by asherlangton 12y ago
Considering that their Kickstarter was shut down 6 months ago due to their lies, and that they started up again at Indiegogo despite the warnings, and that they've been concealing information and attacking their critics through sockpup
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by asherlangton 12y ago
Yeah, and the remote root shell with password "admin"?
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by asherlangton 12y ago
Ah, I see what you're saying. Fair enough.
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by asherlangton 12y ago
The subject, sure, but the author? Why?
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Is “genius” hacker Walter O'Brien a fraud?(techdirt.com)
1 points by asherlangton 12y ago|4 comments
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by asherlangton 14y ago
The CEO of Leaping Brain (or someone pretending to be him) has now joined the Google Plus thread, implying that the "DRM" was intended as satire...
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by asherlangton 14y ago
Or just (unintentional) truth in marketing...
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by asherlangton 14y ago
Once I had both versions of the files, I looked at them in a hex editor. Since there were some null bytes at the beginning of the video file, it wasn't hard to guess the string they were using. I'm not going to post the file themselves (for
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by asherlangton 14y ago
You're right, actually. I'm glad it's broken, because it's a lot easier for me to watch the videos I purchased without the DRM. I was just struck by the audacity of their marketing claims.
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by asherlangton 14y ago
The wrapper script is GPL'd, so I copied it here: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/15447644/brainplayer_py.txt My modifications are on lines 553-556. The compiled app "fixes" the .mov file just long enough for it to be loaded into the player. If y
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Leaping Brain's "Virtually Uncrackable" DRM is just an XOR with "RANDOM_STRING"(plus.google.com)
720 points by asherlangton 14y ago|254 comments