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Revisiting the Infamous Sony BMG Rootkit Scandal 10 Years Later (networkworld.com)
alphadogg writes: Hackers really have had their way with Sony over the past year, taking down its Playstation Network last Christmas Day and creating an international incident by exposing confidential data from Sony Pictures Entertainment in response to The Interview. Some say all this is karmic payback for what's become known as a seminal moment in malware history: Sony BMG sneaking rootkits into music CDs 10 years ago in the name of digital rights management. 'In a sense, it was the first thing Sony did that made hackers love to hate them,' says Bruce Schneier, CTO for Resilient Systems. Sony's scheme was revealed on Halloween of 2005, and was followed by a botched response, issuing and reissuing of rootkit removal tools, and lawsuits. There are object lessons from the incident which are relevant today.
A former "co-worker" of mine (we retailed wares we wrote thru Sunbelt @ the same time 1996-2000), Dr. Mark Russinovich of Microsoft/SysInternals.
* Credit should go to where it's due!
(Iirc, HE broke this & found it on his .38 Special "Sticking it to the man" music CD - Side Note: Good band, I didn't have the album, but for SOME reason (the title), it has always stuck out in my mind regarding his exposing all of this...)
APK
P.S.=> "Onwards & UPWARDS" ... apk
See subject & quote (I may have been misinformed): "Noted tech activist Cory Doctorow, writing for Boing Boing earlier this month, explains that some vendors had their reasons for not exposing the Sony rootkit right away. "Russinovich was not the first researcher to discover the Sony Rootkit, just the first researcher to blow the whistle on it. The other researchers were advised by their lawyers that any report on the rootkit would violate section 1201 of the DMCA, a 1998 law that prohibits removing 'copyright protection' software. The gap between discovery and reporting gave the infection a long time to spread.""
APK
P.S.=> Well, well - "Will WONDERS never cease" & I operated, perhaps it seems incorrectly now after reading that, for YEARS on that assumption (that it seems was being propogated across the internet & never corrected as far as I knew, until now)... apk
See subject & besides: I've also FLOORED him too - how/when? His Windows IT Pro magazine article "The Memory Optimization Hoax" where I USED MICROSOFT'S OWN DOCUMENTATION showing memory optimization tech (using MS' own clearmem.exe no less, does same thing, except NOT GUI) was shown to unhalt FROZEN exchange servers speeding them up when lagged!
He had ZERO to say, hiding his head in shame no doubt. I shut down ALL arstechnica with it too, especially Jeremy Reimer & Jay Little (who had their websites removed @ CrystalTech + Shaw for email harassment of myself after that - they couldn't handle having their asses handed to them!)
At sunbelt he was "upset" my wares outsold his in fact - he gave me guff then, but both our wares kept selling well (he wanted to be 'king' I guess) via SERVER EXTRAS (which I actually lived down the street from in Atlanta @ the time 1994-2000) - he finally tried again, & see the results above.
* These people YOU people seem to think are "gods" are not that @ all... this convinced me even more he's a "P.R. Machine product" -> http://it.slashdot.org/comment...
IT APPEARS HE DID NOT DISCOVER THIS ROOTKIT @ ALL!
APK
P.S.=> You happy now? I make YOUR 'GODS' BLEED &when that happens? Blood's in the water - he won't talk to PROGRAMMERS anymore after it - only techs (he can 'fool' thinking he is some 'god of code' & he's not) Face facts - you WISH you were me, fool... apk
Oh com on man,, Please.. Dont let your stupidity overload your jay-bird mouth.
I wil not comment on Microsoft,, they can hold their own..
But the jewish part is absurd, feeble and very small/narrow minded..
Each and every culture/race has their run-ins with this type of behavior... No one is perfect..
Quit being a bitch, own up to your short comings. Like that hot Jewish Chick with all the money turning you down in front of your friends, family in a public spectacle, once you opened your lame, uneducated, racist mouth..
Does it still burn that hot????
My apologies for the adult language used in this section of comments, I truly hope this individual has the capability to understand and learn from it..
Your comments about the Jewish people are racist, full of hatred, and are UNACCEPTABLE in our society..