MobiTV vs HoFo
 

I don't know if you've tuned into HowardFroums in the last couple of days or not, but it seems that one of the HoFo-ers discovered that there was absolutely no security on MobiTV.com's download content and that anyone with access to the Internet could download videos for free. Now Howard is facing legal threats from MobiTV because a someone posted the fact on his website.

saw it in today's news...or rather an RSS feed.
I hope howard fights back and wins because this is pretty stupid.

well, it's pretty stupid but in italy a similar thing is ... normal :(

A few days ago I did a Google search of "MobiTV" and "Howard" and saw that a number of online technology magazines had picked up this story. Shortly after that Howard announced that MobiTV had backed off. It seems that maybe the flood of e-mails explaining to MobiTV that basing your security on user ignorance was nothing short of idiotic might have had something to do with it. Sort of reminds me of the olden days when the IT shop where I work used to remove the assembly language and low-level system call sections from the programming manuals because the users could circumvent the security system by using system calls from assembly subroutines. Then of course, the local university happened to also teach that brand of assembly language.