With newer iPods and the iPhone 2.x firmware, Apple decided to implement a new hash scheme for iTunesDB to prevent third-party apps from managing the iPod database. Stupid. They decided to make it part of the FairPlay codebase, including its obfuscation. Very Stupid. But just in case that weren’t enough, then they went ahead and tried to take down the iPodHash project which was attempting to reverse engineer the (annoyingly obfuscated) algorithm. Completely Stupid.

I had previously patched the check out in the MusicLibrary binary, and forgot to write it up. However, I just looked at it again, and it turns out that you can get it to work just by changing a simple XML file. I guess they didn’t really care if jailbroken iPhone users used third-party software.
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And most of us are back home! 25C3 has really been a blast and I’m sure most of us will repeat next year.

We had a huge table and still managed to fill it up entirely. Just look:

Since taking photos of the public without permission is forbidden at the Congress, and I didn’t obtain explicit permission from the people on the left, I’ve blacked them out. Oh yeah, that guy at the back is crediar. I hear he doesn’t mind if I post his photo

The iPhone Dev Team guys also sat with us. We even worked together on several occasions, and it was really cool to have these two teams meet together and learn from each other.
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