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Hackers crack Apple's iTunes gift card algorithm
appleinsider.com - 3/11/2009
Hackers crack Apple's iTunes gift card algorithm
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$200 iTunes Gift Certificates are selling for less than $3 in China now that a group of local hackers has circumvented Apple's algorithm for creating the digital vouchers and built their own gift certificate generators.
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iTunes gift cards cracked
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) — ... This seems like bad news for Apple, to say the least. A few Chinese websites are now selling $200 gift certficates to iTunes for less than a few bucks, which means that it's likely hackers have figured out the algorithm to determine gift codes on Apple's music store. As with most online codes, iTunes gift certificate numbers are generated by a formula somewhere -- figure out the formula, and you can generate your own codes (though it's of course tough to do and highly illegal). ...

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