CD copy protection trumped by Shift key
A Princeton graduate student said Monday that he has figured out a way to defeat new software intended to keep music CDs from being copied on a computer - simply by pressing the Shift-key. "In a paper posted on his Web site late Monday, John Halderman said the MediaMax CD3 software developed by SunnComm Technologies Inc. could be defeated on computers running the Windows operating system by holding down the Shift key, disabling a Windows feature that automatically launches the encryption software on the disc."
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