Talk suggestion: I'm an evil iPlayer hacker

[Paul Battley]

I could do a presentation on my (successful) efforts at imitating an
iPhone to download iPlayer videos: history, countermeasures, counter-
countermeasures, technical details, parsing and interpreting
JavaScript data structures in Ruby, making Ruby's Net::HTTP act like
an iPhone, reverse-engineering RTMP, that sort of thing.

Does that sound interesting to anyone? What specific aspects would you
want to know about/find unbearably tedious?

Paul.

[Anthony Green]

+1
and I promise not to tell Anthony Rose what is discussed.

[Paul Battley]

On Sep 16, 3:10 pm, Anthony Green <em...@acgreen.co.uk> wrote:
> +1
> and I promise not to tell Anthony Rose what is discussed.

You can invite him along as far as I'm concerned - it's all open
source, and I even use a public svn repository!

Paul.

[James Adam]

I noticed you've made some recent changes to the code to support
building a GUI.

I think it would be interesting to hear about how you used Ruby to
interrogate the Big British Castle's servers and get the handshaking
right, but also how you went about restructured a simple script into a
reusable library. That sounds like a common goal for many successful
side projects.

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[Martin Sadler]

+1
All of that sounds good to me

[Roland Swingler]

+1 from me as well. Sounds really cool.

[Tom Armitage]

+1. Like the sound of it a lot - varied and lots of meaty goodness!

[Jonathan Conway]

+1 would love to see this talk

Cheers

Jonathan

On Sep 16, 1:20 pm, Paul Battley <pbatt...@gmail.com> wrote:

[petef]

+1 for the talk and another +1 for what James said

> how you went about restructured a simple script into a reusable library.

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petef

[inou...@googlemail.com]

+1 for this.

I am interested in "reverse-engineering RTMP" part and again another
+1 for what James said.

[Paul Battley]

I envisage a 30-minute talk. I don't think I can fit everything into 8
minutes!

Paul.