What's even more of a joke is that The Register published it, when it was evident from the start that it was never true. Totally sick of the clueless hyping so-called security news when they don't even know what security is. On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 09:58:38AM -0800, Shon Elliott wrote:
And from what I know of the problem, the Nullsoft guys already fixed this bug in Winamp v2.81+.
The part of this thing that's so funny that people are eating up is the fact that they were NOT hired by the RIAA to do it. You can see at the bottom of the original statement, that they even say they're joking, but the exploit is real, and had nothing to do with the RIAA. RIAA even said they have nothing to do with it. I wished I had saved the link for the news.com story, but it's there if you look for it.
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