Apple's Open Sauce Ipod lock-out hacked

APPLE'S BID TO control the minds of people who use their Ipods has run aground of the rocks of reality again.

Yesterday, we reported how Jobs' Mob was so spooked by the concept of people not using its bloated, proprietary, Itunes software, that they fixed the Ipod so that it could not run Open Sauce equivalents.

However Apple's bid to tell the sort of technology boffins who like running such software what to do lasted the 30 minutes it took one of them to write a bit of code to get around it.

According to the Ipodsminusitunes bog hackers wtbw, nopcode, teuf, simon and many others from #gtkpod have worked out a way around Apple's futile attempt at a lock out.

Apple has assumed that since there are few hacks of the OSX operating system it's software is somehow technologically superior.

As Ipodsminusitunes said, Apple should have learned from its Iphone experience that its security is an open book to hackers if they really want to take it apart. The Ipod and the Iphone they want and so it can and will be hacked. µ