[mythtv-users] MS media center

[Raymond Wagner]

On 2/26/2010 19:01, Christopher Meredith wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 4:34 PM, Raymond Wagner<raymond at wagnerrp.com>  wrote:
>    
>> On 2/26/2010 17:19, Christopher Meredith wrote:
>>      
>>> At the end of the day, the MCE servers are open, unencrypted, and
>>> freely accessible to anyone.
>>>
>>>        
>> Are they?  Mc2xml is closed source, so you can't tell what it's doing short
>> of watching it with a network monitor.
>>      
> MCE and mc2xml aren't the same thing. My point was that using mc2xml
> doesn't require "hacking" or spoofing the MCE servers to get the data.
> If MS wants to make sure no one else can user their servers, they
> could do that. But they don't, so no laws are broken by using
> something like mc2xml. Whether the author of mc2xml is spying on me is
> another matter. If that concerns you, by all means, don't use it.
>    

This has nothing to do with the author spying on you, it has to do with 
what the program is doing internally to access the Microsoft servers.  
Being closed source, you have no way of telling whether it 'spoofs' the 
servers, aside from actually watching the packet data as it is 
communicating with them.

At the very least, it is unauthorized access to a computer system.  If 
there is any sort of authentication going on, Microsoft would have a 
fairly winnable court case if they so cared.