Apple hires DVD Jon as security consultant

In the past weeks, Apple has suffered a blow to their iPod and iTunes monopoly. As Jon Johansen has been able with some partners, to come up with not once, but twice, a way around the Apple DRM. The program is called PyMusique and I guess it's enough to cause Apple to throw in the towel.

The second time around DVD Jon and two other programmers released software they call "PyMusique", that allows people to connect to Apple's iTunes music store and purchase songs without any copyright protection. They reportedly insisted that "PyMusique" is a "fair interface" for iTunes, aimed at allowing people who use the Linux operating system to purchase music from Apple's store. Apple's patched the 'vulnerability'. Just a few days after that they found their way back in spite of the patch. That was when Steve Jobs decided that he'd had enough. He has reportedly paid DVD Jon an undisclosed yet bizarrely huge amount of money to join Apple. DVD Jon has accepted the offer adding to the ever-growing list of hackers who bag security jobs (pun unintended) in big companies.

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Source: Techtree