Sony Installing dangerous hidden software on your PC

[Flameass]

Read up on this blog about sony including a rootkit on many of its copy protected CDs.

Blog post by the IT professional who first discovered the XCP rootkit

also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005_Sony_CD_copy_protection_controversy

 

[Flymop]

Aye, was found out a while ago, they've been taken to court etc

 

[Flameass]

yeah i was reading the clas action suit settlement website setup by sony

 

[Oracant]

My Neighbor told me a bout this couple of months ago, surprised the hell outta me.

 

[Sabia]

Pretty disgusting if you ask me, really really low-brow tactics by sony. Wired also had a fantastic article on the subject if you wanted to check it out.

http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,69467,00.html
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/privacy/0,69601-2.html

 

[Sorrowfulturnip]

Yeah i did a research paper on trojans and during my research i happened to stumble upon this. Was pretty interesting. Pretty messed up too. I did include this story in the research paper.

 

[Flameass]

i spent a whole 7-8hr one evening reading up on this.

 

[wolfskymoon]

i spent a whole 7-8hr one evening reading up on this.

Crazay

 

[Flameass]

I know, some ppl enjoy reading casually.