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$40,000 DRM hack challenge

p2pnet.net — WIBU-Systems USA, a German firm headquartered in Seattle, says it'll pay $40,000 to anyone who can strip its digital restrictions management software from a "protected" application.

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  • haniam, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1In other words, the app is protected by a hardware dongle. Part of the code is on or encrypted by the dongle. They don't give you the dongle as part of the challenge.

    In real life however, once the app has been widely released, someone will always manage to obtain a dongle and get the key or the missing code and patch the app to run without the dongle.

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