11.04.2011 15:20 Uhr, Quelle: The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Apple AirPlay private key exposed, released

Enterprising software developer James Laird was looking to stream music without AirPlay. Since an appropriate AirPort Express emulator did not exist, Laird reverse-engineered the Airport Express private key and published an open source AirPort Express emulator called ShairPort as a result. What does that mean? A commenter on Hacker News spells it out clearly: Previously you could do this: iTunes -- stream to --> Apple Airport Express 3rd party software -- stream to --> Apple Airport Express Now you can do this: iTunes -- stream to --> 3rd party software/hardware Laird has thrown the door open for software solutions. Now, you c

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