Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Jolly Roger Newsgroups: alt.comp.freeware,comp.sys.mac.system,alt.hacker,alt.privacy.anon-server,comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: "Unhackable" Apple Confirms Malware-Infected Apps Found And Removed From Its Chinese App Store Date: 25 Sep 2015 03:29:00 GMT Organization: People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates Lines: 40 Message-ID: References: <220920150315428842%nospam@nospam.invalid> <91777a714f0d3c05732c6cc8035a09ba@remailer.cpunk.us> <220920151252101796%nospam@nospam.invalid> <220920152128268439%michelle@michelle.org> <220920152224189621%michelle@michelle.org> <230920150841382109%michelle@michelle.org> <230920151950041296%nospam@nospam.invalid> <240920151943018063%nospam@nospam.invalid> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net C3S3HTZyQRz+m6K9HlUM4QhnGLC2igMRnsQdJFtJ03lYyT+fmf Cancel-Lock: sha1:D3uZPfw5V1c9S08vc70sc/URnJw= X-Face: _.g>n!a$f3/H3jA]>9pN55*5<`}Tud57>1Y%b|b-Y~()~\t,LZ3e up1/bO{=-) User-Agent: slrn/1.0.1 (Darwin) Xref: csiph.com alt.comp.freeware:243883 comp.sys.mac.system:80546 alt.hacker:8286 alt.privacy.anon-server:45432 comp.os.linux.advocacy:322843 On 2015-09-25, Nobody wrote: > > "Users who tried to sync and update an iPod with music from the likes of > Amazon or 7Digital were told there was an error with their iPod that > could only be solved with a factory restore through iTunes, which > completely wiped the iPod." > > "Restoring the iPod from iTunes would not restore music from rival > services. Apple decided to “not to tell users the problem” Coughlin > explained." The files were still on their computers. Not a single individual lost a song, and that's a fact recorded in the case history. The offending fake DRM songs were simply omitted from the iPod. >> the *only* thing that happened was if you had songs with hacked drm, >> they would not be synced to an ipod. they were still on your hard >> drive. > > If you had it on your hard drive. The songs *were* already on the hard drive, since it was the action of synchronizing them from the computer to the iPod that resulted in the message telling users they had to do a factory restore - as you quoted above. You are being foolish. > It doesn't excuse Apple from scanning for music from rival services > and deleted it from your iPod. Apple didn't scan for anything but legitimate DRM protection. If a song was using illegitimate hacked DRM protection, Apple simply refused to copy it from the computer to the device. Users didn't lose the songs on their computer. Not a single person did, as is recorded in the court case documents. -- E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my ravenous SPAM filter. I often ignore posts from Google. Use a real news client instead. JR