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Holy Cats! There is a DRM chip inside the iPod Shuffle earbuds! [Update]

March 15th, 2009 link to (permalink)

J&R over at BBG dissected the iPod Shuffle’s tiny headphone control system and found an unidentified chip, marked 8A83E3, that appears to be some sort of proprietary digital control that prevents unauthorized transmission of commands to the Shuffle without an official Apple adapter.

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