From: Graydon
On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 05:15:01PM -0800, Keith Whaley scripsit:
> Bran Everseeking wrote:
>> On Wed, 13 Jan 2010 15:25:39 -0500
>> John Sessoms <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> I'd forgotten all about that. My only reason for not liking Sony
>>> products was experience with products that invariably failed within a
>>> week of the warranty expiring - consumer audio/video.
>
>> Sony has been good for me but I sum up my refusal to buy Sony product
>> and technology in one word: rootkit.
>
> Would you care to elaborate? That makes no sense to me.
Sony has used a root kit -- a mean of surreptitiously taking over your
computer without your knowledge -- to attempt to prevent copying of
music CDs.
See <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_CD_copy_protection_scandal>
for a summary.
Beyond "copy protection", the root kit opened any computer on which it
was installed to additional mal-ware. And it installed automatically
WITHOUT WARNING if one of the affected CDs was played in your computer.
The root kit stayed resident even when you weren't playing their CDs,
and caused BSOD errors as well as "phoning home" with information about
how you used your computer.
Then, when they got caught, they offered an "uninstaller" that didn't
uninstall the root kit, it installed additional mal-ware AND you had to
give them an email address to get teh "uninstaller"; an email address
they used for SPAM.
You know, I *HAD* forgotten about that shit!
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