iPlayer security a sham, says Stephen Fry

The Beeb’s iPlayer service might be a monster success, but one of the corporation’s biggest stars now says it’s security is a sham.

Stephen Fry reckons the BBC has shown “incredible naivety” in giving away its valuable content.

Dishing out his criticism at a BBC lecture on public service broadcasting, Fry said he has broken the iPlayer’s security personally, copying shows from a computer to his iPhone.

“The BBC is making a lot of enemies giving away free programmes to an internet that everyone else is trying to monetise” he said.

“At the moment, it’s relying on the fact you have to be slightly dorky to record from the iPlayer; but, believe me, that will change. It will soon be the work of a moment for my mother to get an iPlayer programme off her computer and on to her iPod, iPhone, or whatever device she chooses.”

It’s hard to disagree with Fry. Hackers are ingenious folks. Place your bets on when the first automated iPlayer cracking app will appear in the comments section below.
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