Real Story of the Rogue Rootkit

BokLM writes "Wired has an interesting article from Bruce Schneier about what's happening with the Sony Rootkit, and criticizing the anti-virus companies for not protecting its users. From the article: 'Much worse than not detecting it before Russinovich's discovery was the deafening silence that followed. When a new piece of malware is found, security companies fall over themselves to clean our computers and inoculate our networks. Not in this case.'"

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Quote: The only thing that makes this rootkit...

[idontgno]

...legitimate is that a multinational corporation put it on your computer, not a criminal organization.

(From TFA)

It's an interesting insight, but it also misses an equally crucial point: The two (multinational corp, criminal org) are not mutually exclusive. And, in this case, that they are the same thing.

I haven't bought Sony in some time, and I'm absolutely not going to now. It's a shame the BMG is part of their label, since some really decent acts (IMHO) are signed with them. I'll live, of course. I hope those artists find a good way to get out from under their contracts and escape their indenture with such a thoroughly evil organization.