IT Security Top Headlines » personality http://www.pinolobu.com/security interesting news and opinions about IT security Sun, 15 Jun 2008 07:16:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Jon Lech Johansen: reverse engineering wizard http://www.pinolobu.com/security/2006/10/29/jon-lech-johansen-reverse-engineering-wizard/ http://www.pinolobu.com/security/2006/10/29/jon-lech-johansen-reverse-engineering-wizard/#comments Sat, 28 Oct 2006 21:59:59 +0000 pinolobu http://www.pinolobu.com/security/2006/10/27/jon-lech-johansen-reverse-engineering-wizard/

Nicknamed “DVD Jon”, infamous for coauthoring DeCSS, which decodes the content-scrambling system used for DVD licensing enforcement.

In October 2006, Johansen and DoubleTwist Ventures announced they had reverse engineered Apple Computer’s DRM for iTunes, called FairPlay. Rather than allow people to strip the DRM, DoubleTwist would license the ability to apply FairPlay to media companies who wanted their music and videos to play on the iPod, without having to sign a distribution contract with Apple.

His blog is entitled “So Sue Me”.

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]]> http://www.pinolobu.com/security/2006/10/29/jon-lech-johansen-reverse-engineering-wizard/feed/ Vardan Kushnir: Russia’s spam king murdered http://www.pinolobu.com/security/2006/07/27/vardan-kushnir-russias-spam-king-murdered/ http://www.pinolobu.com/security/2006/07/27/vardan-kushnir-russias-spam-king-murdered/#comments Thu, 27 Jul 2006 15:33:25 +0000 pinolobu http://www.pinolobu.com/security/2006/07/27/vardan-kushnir-russias-spam-king-murdered/ He is Russia’s most despised Internet figure, sending 25 million spam emails a day and earning 5 figures (US dollars) a month, a fortune by Russia’s standards.

He was into the good, but sleazy life and found dead one morning in his bathroom, skull bashed in.

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]]> http://www.pinolobu.com/security/2006/07/27/vardan-kushnir-russias-spam-king-murdered/feed/ Gary McKinnon aka Solo: the new Mitnick? http://www.pinolobu.com/security/2006/05/11/gary-mckinnon-aka-solo-the-new-mitnick/ http://www.pinolobu.com/security/2006/05/11/gary-mckinnon-aka-solo-the-new-mitnick/#comments Wed, 10 May 2006 16:15:22 +0000 pinolobu http://www.pinolobu.com/security/2006/05/11/gary-mckinnon-aka-solo-the-new-mitnick/ US govt alleges that between February 2001 and March 2002, he repeatedly hacked into, from the UK, dozens of computers used by the US Army, Navy, Air Force, and Department of Defense.

Talk about bad timing: that’s within 9/11’s timeframe.

US govt is attempting to extradite him to stand trial.

One American prosecutor called “the biggest military computer hack of all time”.

He got caught after 2 years because “it got so routine and blase that he got sloppy. A fellow hacker remarked that if he had done it for two weeks they would never have caught him.

Faces decades in jail and millions of dollars in fines.

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