From The Register:
----------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Nokia pledges to pursue N-Gage crack creators [...] Nokia today vowed to "aggressively pursue" the people behind the successful attempt to crack its N-Gage handheld console-cum-phone's copy protection mechanism. A Nokia spokesman told The Register the company had already begun working with ISPs and law enforcement agencies to track down the perpetrators. [...] As we reported earlier, the crack has been implemented in an application which when loaded onto an N-Gage or another Symbian-based Series 60 handset will detect encrypted games stored in the root directory of a memory card, decrypt the files onto the card then add the game in the handset's application launcher. [...] How the copy protection mechanism was cracked isn't known. The Nokia spokesman said the company's system was proprietary [...] [...] Skill is one thing, but as far as time goes, it has taken only a month from the console's release to the public for the code to be cracked. The Nokia spokesman admitted that the company had "expected this to happen" - which begs the question why, like the DVD Content Scrambling System, the copy protection developers didn't come up with something stronger in the first place. [...] ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- - See: http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/68/33938.html R .-. .-. / \ .-. .-. / \ / \ / \ .-. _ .-. / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / `-' `-' \ / \ / \ \ / `-' `-' \ / `-' `-' _______________________________________________ FoRK mailing list http://xent.com/mailman/listinfo/fork ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07078, 11.61144 http://www.leitl.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE [demime 0.97c removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature]