Microsoft’s DRM for Windows Phone 7 Marketplace Apps apparently has a few holes they need to address.
Recently a white hat hacker successfully made an app that can get into the Marketplace, find any app (paid or free), remove its DRM, and either directly install it to the phone, or save the XAP file. And he did it by himself in just 6 hours!
Of course this will not be publicly released in any form, and he has notified Microsoft of this and how he did it, so that they can fix this as fast as possible. This has also come up on developer forums and Microsoft really needs to get on the ball with this and fix these holes sooner rather than later.
Stay tuned for any updates on this matter, but for here is a video of the white hat hacker demonstrating how easy it would be to use his tool to pirate apps easily from the Windows Phone 7 Marketplace.
(note: PPCGeeks does not condone any form of piracy)
via -WPCentral
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It’s not for release?? Way to get my hopes up lol.
niiiiiiiice…
White hats don’t do that sort of thing…black hats do releases of their cracks.
lol @ smu.
Wow, that guy is really lame. Just when somebody finds a way to start “fixing” Windows Mobile 7, it happens to be the same person to tear down the progress again.
Shame. A real Shame.
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we would hate for people to spent hours or even multiple minutes stealing 5 dollar appz…. :/
I’m glad that the guy is acting responsibly and working with Microsoft on the issue. As much as I disapprove of DRM in general, I disapprove of thieves twice as much.
He must be a developer.
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