Bad Day To Be Sony

Not only is Sony no longer selling the RootKit CDs, Arend writes "According to a USAToday article, Sony is to pull their controversial rootkit CDs from store shelves." A nice gesture, but a little late. bos writes "Sony's DRM rootkit has been found by Dan Kaminsky to have infected at least half a million networks, according to an article by Quinn Norton for Wired News. Dan has even put together some pretty pictures of the breadth of the infection." With so many people infected, it's unfortunate that wiredog writes "From The Washington Post comes the news that serious security flaws have been found in the software that Sony is distributing to users who want to remove the Sony rootkit. The article says: 'Because of the way the tool is configured ... it allows any Web page that the user subsequently visits to download, install and run any code that it likes.'" Oops. Even Microsoft is getting into the act. ares284 writes "Microsoft said it would remove controversial copy-protection software that CDs from music publisher Sony BMG install on personal computers, deeming it a security risk to PCs running on Windows."

Comments

Re:How to boycott?

[Rayin]

Thats just what we need, giving the courts even more control over our lives. In today's world, at least in America, people are all to ready to attempt to accomplish through the courts what they can't do through the legislature or on their own through such techniques as boycotting or simply speaking out. If Sony violated a law, let them be held accountable. However, I'm not so sure that they did (although, not being a lawyer, I can't say for sure). If they didn't, lets leave the courts out for once. If you wan't to make a change, do it the way democracy is supposed to be done: by contacting your elected officials and telling them that you don't like this, and they should do something about it. If that doesn't work, launch a boycott, using the internet or whatever else you can think of to get the word out.

Re:How to boycott?

[poopdeville]

In today's world, at least in America, people are all to ready to attempt to accomplish through the courts what they can't do through the legislature or on their own through such techniques as boycotting or simply speaking out. If Sony violated a law, let them be held accountable. However, I'm not so sure that they did (although, not being a lawyer, I can't say for sure). If they didn't, lets leave the courts out for once.

The people are exercising their legal rights. The courts decide if a law has been broken. So shut the fuck up, dumb ass.