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More on Sony's "DRM Rootkit"

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the to-much-to-believe dept.

A couple of days ago we posted a story about Sony DRM installing a rootkit. Since then we have seen many more stories on the subject that I thought were worth sharing. manno gave us a link to the inquirer and salemnic sent us a page from the washington post. smallfries gave us one from PC Pro. It's nice to see this story not getting lost in the cracks since the implications are gigantic.

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  1. Dupe(s): with a purpose. by Nomihn0 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    See? Duping can be a positive thing! Sure, it can get tiresome, but reviewing "old" stories can foster excellent debate. Every time a topic is re-posted, we /.ers look at it in a new light. That is, we have a different perspective now than we did when the article was first released. Why? Well, for two reasons. First, the story hsa matured. Second, our opinions on it have.
     
    I, for one, welcome our intenionally-duping overlords.

  2. Re:I don't understand the fuss. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    You're getting modded down, cunny, because you're wrong. What part of the "the rootkit is not mentioned in the EULA" did you not understand? This can be used to hide just about anything. You dope.

  3. Reminds me of something I did by OverlordQ · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Kinda off topic, but somewhat related. Reading through the article it talks about how it hid complete folders from a directory listing. I accidently did that once when i was backing up a hard drive to another one, at first I thought I lost it, but magically I could open it directly. Was hidden to Explorer, dir, and ls -a through cygwin. No clue on how I did it in the first place, much less how to enable/disable it.

    Any ideas from the /. crowd?

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