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

March 15th, 2009 link to (permalink)

Ok. This is absolutely insane. J&R over at BBG dissected the iPod Shuffle’s tiny headphone control system and found an unidentified chip, a 8A83E3 that appears to be some sort of proprietary physical control that prevents unauthorized transmission of commands to the Shuffle without an...

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