Linux hackers bite back at Apple iPod lockout
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Along comes Apple with the new iPod Touch and throws a few SHA1 hashes into the start of the database which not only locks it to your iPod but prevents anyone from fiddling with the file format. Actually, that is not true. You can fiddle with the format, and you can try and sync with something other than iTunes. It won't work though, because iTunesDB will report that it contains precisely zero songs if you do.
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Of course, if Apple really thought that it could lock out anyone in this way for any length of time, let alone the Linux community, it needs therapy and badly. The chaps over at ipodminustunes took a weekend to crack the cryptographic signature combining data from the iTunesDB and a device specific identifier with a bunch of code. End result: Linux users can 'fix' their new iPod to snyc properly with the music software of their choice by following the step-by-step instructions kindly posted at Will's Home. Full Story |
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