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5 unusual facts about Jon Lech Johansen


Content Scramble System

In October 1999, Jon Lech Johansen and two people who have remained anonymous reverse engineered CSS and created DeCSS to share the exploit with others, in a striking example of the trusted client problem.

DoubleTwist

doubleTwist Corporation is a digital media company founded by Monique Farantzos and Jon Lech Johansen.

Remote Audio Output Protocol

The RSA public key stored in iTunes was extracted by Jon Lech Johansen, enabling third-party software to stream music to an Airport Express.

SharpMusique

SharpMusique was a rewrite in C# of PyMusique, which was an iTunes Music Store client written in Python by Travis Watkins, Cody Brocious, and Jon Lech Johansen for the purpose of allowing downloading songs from the iTunes Music Store before DRM was applied to them from a Mac, Linux, or Windows computer.

Sosumi

Jon Lech Johansen's blog "So Sue Me" is believed to be pun reference to the Apple sound.



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