Microsoft's Windows Media DRM cracked (again)
The Zune may not be the most popular portable media player, but you wouldn't know it based on the game of cat and mouse that has been going on for nearly a year between Microsoft and "hackers" who have continually found ways to defeat Microsoft's DRM.
Ars Technica has been able to confirm that the latest attacks on Microsoft's Windows Media DRM work as proclaimed. Via an update of the Individualized Blackbox component (IBX), FairUse4WM can now remove DRM for Microsoft IBX versions 11.0.6000.6324 and earlier, on both XP and Vista.
The release of the update was first announced on the Doom9 forums, where user 'Divine Tao' indicated that he found a way to update FairUse4WM to support new keys (v1.3 Fix2). It would appear as though 'Divine Tao' is not working with the same hacker(s) who broke the Windows Media DRM code last summer, as the user says that access to the FairUse4WM source code is not possible for him or her. ('Divine Tao' is an anagram of 'viodentia,' however, which is suspicious.)
