I agree. And it raises two other questions.
The first, posited by a respondent on one of the lists that mention this
outrage, was: "What now is the meaning of "trusted content?"". If you
can't trust Sony not to illegally and deviously infect your PC with
damaging virus-like software, who can you trust?
And the second point is this: If Sony are prepared to act like this, what
might that even bigger and more ruthless company, Microsoft, be prepared
to do? Sony's inept effort was easy for a competent programmer to spot,
but Microsoft could embed something so deeply into an otherwise perfectly
innocent and valid program that nobody would know it was there. They
might even have done it. And it might well already be in Longhorn, or
whatever they call the next version of Windows.
Time for another look at Linux, methinks.
Of course, this whole issue is caused by an industry that can't accept,
and refuses to adapt to, a fundamental change to its business model.
John
On Fri, 04 Nov 2005 11:48:23 -0000, mike wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
From: "John Forbes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
If enough people get to hear of this, Sony stand to lose a gigantic
amount
of money.
On Thu, 03 Nov 2005 22:47:35 -0000, mike wilson
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
http://www.sysinternals.com/blog/2005/10/sony-rootkits-and-digital-rights.html
>
What I found really shocking was not so much that Sony did it, as that
it did it so badly. With the resources it has at its disposal, Sony has
shown itself to be managed by the same sort of plonkers that infest
every other organisation. You could expect a multinational corporation
to act in a high handed manner. I would also expect that it would try
to do so effectively, discreetly and in a manner that would draw as
little attention (of the bad sort) to itself as possible. Not the case
here.
m
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