Originally posted by tubebuoy@Jun 18 2003, 06:04 PM
1. I read about the RIAA research on this and yes, they're trying to develope MP3s that will wipe a hard drive. Then they let them loose on P2P systems.
in order for them to be able to destroy a hard drive through an mp3, all of the following would have to be true
1: the mp3's headers are correct, enough so that a player would recognize the header of the file as mp3, and play it, but also have a malformed header to exploit....
2: the player has to have a flaw to let an mp3 run code
3: zone is hands down the better coder than me, so i may be wrong, but, the only way they could destroy a drive while windows is running on it would be assembly, they would have to directly interact with it through assembly language and wipe it from there, which would cause the machine to reboot, obviously
that said, if there is a flaw in the player you're using, what's to keep other hackers from figuring that flaw that the RIAA's technology is using, and start spreading viruses that way? the flaw would be found in a day or two tops i'm sure, and the hole would have to be patched by whoever's software it was, else every script kiddie in the world is going to exploit it sooner or later