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?"

Comments

Here's a thinker

[GmAz]

You would think that Military or Government agencies wouldn't allow their employees to put CDs into their computers for security reasons alone. Its rather sad that anyone can bring in a random CD and pop it in. No wonder secure data is able to walk off of those "secure" computers so easily. [Guard] - Please empty your purse please miss. [Woman] - Nothing in there except for my personals and some music CDs. [Guard] - Ok miss, you may pass. [Woman] - {murmering under her breath} Sucker...now wheres those classified documents.

Record Yet

[Nom du Keyboard]

Have we broken the record yet for Slashdot articles about a single company over a single issue across a limited period of time?

Re:Of Course, that is Sony's Security Policy

[sconeu]

Maybe because it's spelled "absurdity".