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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."
You man not be a'boycott kind of guy', but your views certainly seem extreame to me:
"All mercantilistic (using government to acquire wealth) corporations are bad"
Your point of view about government seems pathological.
Are you a Marxist? Why is utilizing government to acquire wealth bad?
I am guessing that you are young person, probably still in school.
There is nothing wrong with having a business that relies on the government as long as you provide society with products and services that it needs.
If we didn't have governments contracting then we wouldn't have the majority of roads, bridges, schools.
OK, so what is bad with roads, bridges, and schools, etc.
Criminal prosecution? I hope you're not counting on a Bush administration Department of Justice. Maybe Massachusetts, or one of the other hold-out states from the antitrust case. Of course, many of those Attorneys General are probably out of office by now.
What you do with a computer does not constitute the whole of computing.
Yeah, they labeled you a pirate, assumed you would have bought 500 CDs a day otherwise, calculated how much profit they would get from 500 CDs a day, and used that as an excuse to create rootkit enabled CDs. Good job Guppy06, way to ruin it for the rest of us.
I read the internet for the articles.