Was the AirPort Express hacked or not?

Ok, so maybe it was a bit of an overstatement when a lot of people made when they said DVD Jon "cracked" the Airport Express (we're surely not innocent of this). But we stand by the statement that he hacked it—He did! He opened up unintended functionality, so we'll call that a hack, even if his process did turn out to be more than a little anti-climactic from a technical standpoint. The boys at gadgetwhore have explained exactly what DVD Jon really did: expose the non-secret, public crypto key used for streaming data to the Airport. If you don't follow, their analogy is pretty good: it's "very much like equating finding a house key on the street with burglary". So he didn't break down the door, he just gave us all a copy of the key that Apple left around. Either way, thanks DVD Jon! You're still the man!