Submission + - BBC's use of Windows DRM criticized (arstechnica.com)
Commander YaYa writes: The BBC's soon-to-launch iPlayer will initially make use of Microsoft DRM, but an open-source group is challenging the plan.
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A New York-based security researcher spent less than 12 hours to identify and exploit a zero-day vulnerability in Apple's Safari browser that allowed him to remotely gain full user rights to the hacked machine. The feat came during the second and final day of the CanSecWest "pwn-2-own" contest in which participants are able to walk away with a fully-patched MacBook Pro if they are first able to hack it.
The solution of this problem is trivial and is left as an exercise for the reader.