Wednesday, November 16, 2005

...and a quick thought on the Sony/BMG rootkit

Most people, I think, don't even know what a rootkit is, so why should they care about it.
Quote attributed to Thomas Hesse, president Global Digital Business Division, SonyBMG.

Nice job buddy. Thanks to that kind of thinking now everyone has heard of rootkits.
Not only that, but this intrusive software has created backdoors in thousands of networks across the planet, but people are taking advantage of it to bypass the World of Warcraft Warden software and effectively defrauding Blizzard.

IANAL, but the last time I checked, buying a CD from a label did not give them the right to root my machine.

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