Sony Rootkit

[Martin]

Stop me if you've heard this one before. A record label uses DRM to sort of keep its customers from copying the music. It turns out that the software poses a threat to the user's PC. So the label issues a patch... which opens up another security hole. If you guessed that the label in question is Sony, you'd be correct. If you guessed that I'm recapping last month's rootkit debacle, you'd be wrong.

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20051208-5720.html

[Tony]

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Unfortunately, common sense and Sony are only passing acquaintances

[md]

I smell more lawsuits!

[Dan]

Root kits for all!!! Security holes for some!

[wtd]

No no no...

Rootkits for some. Tiny American flags for others.

[md]

I wanna rootkit :'(