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Israeli hacks Kindle

by on24 December 2009

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All your ebooks belong to you


An Israeli
hacker has cracked the copyright protection on Amazon's Kindle e-reader which means that ebooks stored on the reader can be transferred as pdf files to other devices.

Labba took up the challenge which was posted on the Israeli hacking forum, hacking.org. Amazon leaves it to individual publishers whether they want to apply DRM but books in its main proprietary format .azw, cannot be transferred to other devices.

The online book flogger is likely to patch its DRM software to shut down the exploit, but it does show weaknesses in the DRM system. Nothing sales up a user's nasal passages faster than DRM stopping them from doing what they like with something they have bought.

The moment it is put on an electronic title it chucks down a challenge for a hacker to break.
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