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DVD Jon At It Again

Date: 2005-9-8

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   The target this time is Microsoft's NSC formatDVD Jon is already a legend among computer enthusiasts and hackers, but who ever said that you don't need to bother doing what you did to get famou...

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The target this time is Microsoft's NSC format

DVD Jon is already a legend among computer enthusiasts and hackers, but who ever said that you don't need to bother doing what you did to get famous after you got famous? DVD Jon is at it again, and this time around he has reverse engineered the obfuscation (it's not encryption!) of Microsoft's NSC format.

Jon Lech Johansen has reverse engineered a proprietary algorithm, which is used to wrap Media Player NSC files and ostensibly protect them from hackers sniffing for the media's source IP address, port or stream format. He has also made a decoder available.

Johansen doesn't believe there is a good reason to keep the NSC files encrypted, because once you open the file with Media Player to start viewing the stream, the IP address and port can be revealed by running the netstat network utility that is included with most operating systems.

This guy just doesn't stop -- he's a programming machine. Why hasn't he been hired by an intelligence agency yet?

Article Link: DVD Jon hacks Media Player file encryption



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