'DVD Jon' is hiring

Jon Johansen, the 20-something hacker widely known for helping crack the piracy protections on DVDs several years ago, is hiring people for his latest venture: taking on Apple's digital rights management technologies.

Johansen's DoubleTwist Ventures is looking for a "Reverse Engineering Monkey" and a "Senior Software Monkey." The Norwegian started DoubleTwist to license technology that will make other online music stores work with Apple's iPod device and let iTunes songs play on gadgets other than the iPod.

The first position involves working on DRM interoperability technology and requires cryptography, reverse engineering, AJAX, code disassembly, code protection/obfuscation and software optimization skills, according to Johansen's blog. "Your favorite number is 0x90," he wrote on Wednesday.

The second job is to work on audio and video products and requires experience designing, implementing, debugging and optimizing applications, according to the description on Johansen's blog.

[drumpat01]

someone should tell him

someone should tell him DRM is on its way out anyway. EMI is
already doing away with it and the others wont be long as long as
they get the hike the price up.

[rfelgueiras]

not just that but...

...someone should tell him the building a business out of undoing
patented work immoral and illegal. He's advertising that he wasn't
to find a way to break/modify drm. I know there are a lot of ways to
do so, but he's actually trying to make money off of it. Strange.
Maybe gates is paying him so iTunes will work with a Zune.

[thimk2000]

June 11th?

People falsely report June 11th as a scheduled date for the iPhone; however, it is the date Jon announced he was working with DoubleTwist. At the time he claimed most of the work was done and they were licensing the tech. Nearly a year later, and every article recycles the same non-info, there are no products, no announced licensees, their website is still a single page with zero info, and NOW he is hiring for HIS alleged expertise?

Yet somehow people were alleging that AppleTV and the iPhone are/were "vaporware"? This is the biggest vaporware since Duke Nukem Forever.