peppermintesse: (Pissed Katchoo)
peppermintesse ([personal profile] peppermintesse) wrote2005-11-02 12:27 pm

Sony installs a rootkit as a part of DRM on copy protected CDs...

WOW.

Give this little detective story a read. I would never have been able to follow the trail the way this fellow did. Most of what he's talking about is way over my head, but I did enough tech support and virus removal to know this is a shitstorm waiting to happen.

[identity profile] http://users.livejournal.com/_xis/ 2005-11-02 10:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Thanks for posting this... it was really fascinating reading! (And I looove that 'nope, not on a Mac' comment. Hee hee.)

[identity profile] shiningmoon.livejournal.com 2005-11-02 10:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Honestly, it wasn't me. :D

[identity profile] trexphile.livejournal.com 2005-11-03 03:44 am (UTC)(link)
Just one more reason for me to hate Sony.