Kindle Hacked: Now Read Kindle Books On Any Ebook Reader
The hacker, Labba with the help of his programmers friends have successfully broken the copyright protection or DRM of Amazon’s ebook reader Kindle. This will allow the readers to extract the text of Amazon’s AZW files into a PDF for viewing on any other ebook reader.
The hack is the latest to show the worthlessness of digital rights management schemes. It took the hackers only nine days to strip the DRM although there is no formal piece of software for the hack.
It is the latest in a series of Digital Rights Management hacks, the most famous being the reverse engineering of iTunes done by DVD Jon. Amazon engineers went to considerable lengths to prevent their DRM from being tampered with.
Amazon will take steps to sort it out, even despite the claims of the hacker that he will be able to hack it again if Amazon comes with patch. If Amazon decides to go down this way, it might just end up slightly messy like Apple’s developer versus the shareholders.
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