From: Sandy Harris
On 1/14/10, Keith Whaley <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 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 put "copy protection" software on music CDs that installed
onto any Windows box where the CD was played and sent info
to Sony. This was done without the user's knowledge or consent,
the stuff deliberately hid itself from the user, and was nearly
impossible to uninstall.
Best analysis I've seen:
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2005/11/sonys_drm_rootk.html
A web search on "sony rootkit" will turn up much more.
For one thing it turns up that Sony did it a second time in 2007 with
USB hard drives.
http://arstechnica.com/hardware/news/2007/09/another-sony-rootkit-worms-its-way-to-the-surface.ars
As far as I know Italy was the only country that actually initiated
prosecution under their cybercrime laws. Anyone know how
that came out?
In the US, there were consumer lawsuits, settled out of court.
Details on eff.org
The state of Texas prosecuted. I don't know the results.
Dept of Homeland Security got involved too, because it showed up on
Pentagon computers.
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