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.