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Date: 1st November 2006
Risk: Informational

At present, iPod users can only download music from iTunes. Now a hacker claims to have cracked the iTunes security code.

Jon Lech Johansen, who runs a software company called DoubleTwist Ventures, claims that the program he's developed will fool iTunes into thinking that any MP3 player is an iPod. Johansen is also known as 'DVD Jon' and he first rose to fame when at 15, he wrote and distributed a program called DeCSS that cracked the encryption codes on DVDs.

Apple has yet to comment on Johansen's code, but Monique Farantzos, Managing Director at DoubleTwist, said: "There's a certain amount of trouble that Apple can give us, but not enough to stop this. We believe we're on good legal ground, and our attorneys have given us the green light on this."

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