Malware

THE JEW (RaVeN) · Post by **THE JEW (RaVeN)** » Tue Nov 15, 2005 8:35 pm

Their fix is actually worse than the rootkit:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10053831/

THE JEW (RaVeN) · Post by **THE JEW (RaVeN)** » Thu Nov 17, 2005 2:54 pm

Open Source code was used in the rootkit:

http://hack.fi/~muzzy/sony-drm/

http://www.the-interweb.com/serendipity ... 51117.html

Looks like the people maintaining the GPL can get their panties in a bunch now. :wink:

THE JEW (RaVeN) · Post by **THE JEW (RaVeN)** » Tue Nov 22, 2005 1:36 am

Sony's f00ked:

http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArtic ... ived=False

Texas is p!ssed at 'em.

Tempus · Post by **Tempus** » Tue Nov 22, 2005 10:14 am

go get um i say

i hate big companies like this and have particularly always disliked sony sh!te

i specifically dont like having to agree to an EULA for a cd you already bought thats just insane

the whole thing just gets me in a tizzy

THE JEW (RaVeN) · Post by **THE JEW (RaVeN)** » Tue Nov 22, 2005 8:14 pm

All you need is Scotch tape to beat their software:

http://informationweek.com/story/showAr ... =174400748

[PX]Kal Bob · Post by **[PX]Kal Bob** » Tue Nov 22, 2005 8:27 pm

HA HA HA HA HA HA HA

Scotch tape, that is just awsome! I realy like that, makes me want to go out and buy one.

Side Point, While reading the artical, this stood out in my mind.

"After more than five years of trying, the recording industry has not yet demonstrated a workable DRM scheme for music CDs," concluded the Gartner analysts. "It will never achieve this goal as long as CDs must be playable by stand-alone CD players."

Does this mean that the best way to bypass music protection is to build a driver that treats the computers cd-rom as if it were a Stand Alone music player. The data that came out would still be digital, then just encode the stream to MP3.

THE JEW (RaVeN) · Post by **THE JEW (RaVeN)** » Tue Nov 22, 2005 9:44 pm

I guess we'll find out when Windows Vista is released

THE JEW (RaVeN) · Post by **THE JEW (RaVeN)** » Thu Dec 01, 2005 5:27 pm

They've p1ssed off Spitzer, the New York Attorney General:

http://www.betanews.com/article/Eliot_S ... 1133281904

Best part is--he's nailed them before so it looks like he has a very good chance of hitting them again

THE JEW (RaVeN) · Post by **THE JEW (RaVeN)** » Mon Dec 05, 2005 3:26 pm

Teehehe:

http://www.newsinferno.com/storypages/1 ... 5~003.html

Now he's even more p!ssed.

THE JEW (RaVeN) · Post by **THE JEW (RaVeN)** » Mon Dec 12, 2005 8:45 am

Apparently, Sony has been doing this on other cd's with different software, too:

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20051208-5720.html

THE JEW (RaVeN) · Post by **THE JEW (RaVeN)** » Fri Dec 30, 2005 9:24 am

Sony settles in U.S.

http://news.zdnet.co.uk/business/0,3902 ... 664,00.htm

THE JEW (RaVeN) · Post by **THE JEW (RaVeN)** » Tue Jan 17, 2006 6:36 pm

The military and government still shows signs of being infected........

http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11369

..........and the author says that Sony won't be sued? They'd better be

THE JEW (RaVeN) · Post by **THE JEW (RaVeN)** » Fri Feb 17, 2006 10:19 am

DRM to maybe be regulated in its method of application:

http://www.computerworld.com/securityto ... 93,00.html

[PX]Kal Bob · Post by **[PX]Kal Bob** » Wed May 24, 2006 7:50 am

It is final now, sony lost 2 more suites to go though.

http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513-6075370.html

THE JEW (RaVeN) · Post by **THE JEW (RaVeN)** » Mon Aug 27, 2007 8:11 pm

Sigh, do they ever learn?

http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives ... l#00001263

It seems that Sony's fingerprint reader uses a rootkit.