MacRumors is reporting that a developer named James Laird has reverse engineered Apple’s Airport Express private key, and has since released an AirPort Express emulator called Shareport under an open source license.
If you’re anything like me, that doesn’t mean too much to you without any context, but this opens up a lot of possibilities. Specifically, before the hack users could only stream music from iTunes or the like, through an AirPort Express connected to speakers in other parts of the home. Now, the flow can be reversed. Users could now stream music from iTunes to other 3rd party hardware/ software.
I can’t see hardware manufacturers jumping on this, seeing as they could get in legal trouble with Apple, and there’s already a way to become a AirPlay licensed partner. That said, software makers could do worlds of wonder with this. You could stream music from computer-to-computer, or any myriad of devices using the private key.
I’m not usually one to get excited over hacks, or the little projects in the developer community, but this to me, is a really big deal.
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