[extropy-chat] sony messing up computers

[Eugen Leitl]

On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 09:58:14PM -0800, spike wrote:
> 
> This is a hell of a note.  Sony wrote a virus to
> stop piracy, now it helps virus writers.

No virus, a DRM rootkit. Classical script kiddie behaviour
(lying to its customers until the eagle screams, then releasing
buggy patches).

I'm quite pleased that all this so nicely backfired on Sony,
and has given DRM a bad name in the wider population.
 
> http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi%3Ff%3D/c/a/2005/11/12/BUG0MFN2SU1.DTL

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