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Sony RootKit Still A Problem?
XMilkProject writes "Current research indicates that some "350,000 networks--many belonging to the military and government--contain computers affected by [Sony's rootkit]." This is down from over half a million last month. "The security researcher worked from a list of 9 million domain-name servers.. asking each to look up whether an address used by the XCP software--in this case, xcpimages.sonybmg.com--was in the systems' caches." Will Sony face future repercussions for this potentially long-term damage?"
Yes, you two can win arguments by simply dropping words out of your opponent's points.
He said "retail checkout line", and there's a difference between that and the "retail level".
An episode of "Unwrapped" just went by on TV about Supermarkets, where they point out the modern supermarket can have on the order of tens of thousands of items. Your average supermarket checkout clerk can not be expected to remember the names of all of these items, let alone obscure information about what might happen if you stick a CD by one of the many sub-labels some company owns if you stick it in a computer. (Yes, the average supermarket doesn't sell CDs but the point applies across a lot of types of stores nowadays.)
GP is correct. Fighting at the retail checkout level is a waste of time.
Yes, Border's definately should know, but you're not going to correct the institutional ignorance by harassing the checkout clerk, who barely has the authority to process returns (if that), let alone pull product from the shelves or make decisions for the rest of the store/company.
(Read all the words.)