[German]A Microsoft software developer has accidentally shared internal PlayReady source code with the public (a developer forum). The data leak of 4 GByte is sufficient to compile the required DLL from the source code. This could be a real boon for people who want to reverse engineering or crack PlayReady. What is PlayReady? PlayReady is...
  • espentan@lemmy.worldEnglish
    581·
    4 months ago

    I guess he was ready to play.

    PSA: I’m probably old enough to be your father, let me have my terrible jokes/puns.

  • dan@upvote.auEnglish
    37·
    4 months ago

    tl;dr there were two leaks: A Microsoft employee had compiler issues and attached the code to a publicly-visible bug report, and Microsoft’s public symbol server had debug symbols for the library (which makes it a lot easier to reverse engineer and debug the production build in a debugger).

    Did the employee that accidentally leaked it think that the public developer community was an internal bug tracker? Strange. I wonder if Microsoft do actually use the same site for both internal and external bugs and the employee just selected the wrong category when posting. Seems like an unnecessary risk.

    • wjrii@lemmy.worldEnglish
      29·
      4 months ago

      “Facilitated open computing initiatives and exercised independent judgment and mastery of social engineering techniques and forum software.”