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EFF finds HUGE block of hidden info in new iTunes tracks

Cory Doctorow: Apple's new DRM-free tracks from the iTunes store not only contain your email address and password in hidden fields, but in at least one case, more than 360k of hidden information. EFF's technologists have found a hidden block of data in the new iTunes tracks: We compared two DRM-free copies of the track Daftendirekt by Daft Punk. When decoded to PCM/WAV data, both copies produced an identical audio signal (the MD5sum is e40b006497f9b417760ca5015c3fa937). So there is no audio w...

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