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Blizzard's Warden Thwarted by Sony's DRM Rootkit

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the why-openness-matters dept.

shotfeel writes "First, news of Warden -a bit of code from Blizzard's WoW to trounce game cheats. Then, a Sony rootkit to make your computer safe for music. Now, news that you can use the Sony rootkit to make your game cheats safe from the Warden."

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  1. Hell, you knew it was coming. by Tuxedo+Jack · · Score: 4, Interesting

    If the process is hidden, the Warden can't pick up on it, right?

    So hypothetically, ANY rootkit could be used to hide processes - HackerDefender and the others out there would do the job nicely.

    Of course, the other edge of the sword is that you don't know just what _else_ is hiding... unless you wrote and compiled the rootkit yourself using your home-brewed compiler.

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  2. Re:Just goes to show.. by networkBoy · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Because now Blizzard (hopefully) will sue Sony for some DMCA violation on breaking their game security device :-)
    [/wishful thinking]
    -nB

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  3. I pray for the day by sammy+baby · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I now live in hope for the day that a bunch of the corporations pushing for invasive DRM like Blizzard's Warden and Sony's whatever-it's-called sue each other under the DMCA for circumventing each others technologies, instead of suing us for trying to crawl out from under them.

  4. Re:Next fun hack? by harrkev · · Score: 4, Interesting

    What about using Sony's rootkit to hide Alcohol 120%. Does this work?

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  5. Re:That's the beauty of it. by Knetzar · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Blizzard could, and I hope they do, re-write warden to detect the rootkit, and then if it's installed let the user know that sony installed a virus on their machine and that it needs to be removed to play WoW.

  6. Re:Just goes to show.. by Papineau · · Score: 3, Interesting

    That is why you should install 2 Windows installations side-by-side when you install it in the first place. One is your "normal", work and games related one, the other one is for snooping on the first one if you need to do something it won't let you by itself (like replacing some registry files, etc.).

    Works like a charm when you want to restore a system backup too, and there's no need to play with CaptiveNTFS or such.

    It worked quite well in NT4 with the NT bootloader (boot.ini), so you can probably do the same with XP's bootloader without resorting to a 3rd party boot loader (like grub :)). Don't forget to have different desktop backgrounds (like a red one for the administrative install), so you don't end up doing stuff you don't want to in the wrong environment.