so sue me - google's video viewer hacked

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Google Video Viewer
June 28th, 2005 at 5:32 am

Google has released Google Video Viewer, a browser plugin based on VLC.
Here’s one of the features they’ve added:

+ // Google mods
+ const char* allowed_host = \"video.google.com\";
+ char * host_found = strstr(p_sys->url.psz_host, allowed_host);
+ if ((host_found == NULL) ||
+ ((host_found + strlen(allowed_host)) !=
+ (p_sys->url.psz_host + strlen(p_sys->url.psz_host)))) {
+ msg_Warn( p_access, \"invalid host, only video.google.com is
allowed\" );
+ goto error;
+ }

This “feature” prevents you from playing videos that are not hosted on
Google’s servers. Download and run this patch I wrote to remove this
restriction. Running the patch requires a .NET runtime.

Update: Journalists never cease to amaze me with their ability to blow
things out of proportion.

Some of you have requested the source code for the patch: GVVPatch.cs

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