Hackers Crack Kindle DRM
The holidays seem to be freeing up lots of time in eReader hackers’ schedules. After one group cracked the Nook, another has cracked the DRM on the Kindle, enabling them to extract the text and put it into a PDF that can be read on other devices, according to reports from Boy Genious Report and CrunchGear.
CrunchGear also reports that it took the hackers “only nine days.” Is that quick in hacker-time? And Boy Genius goes into some details about the challenge the leader of this particular hack posted to a hacker bulletin board in order to solicit help from others in the hacker community.
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