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Posted by Saltation_DUPE1, around 11th November 2005:
 
Sony helps viriii111one writers
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technol...
Posted by Grim..., around 12th November 2005:
 
Bloody hell, this is a while old.

Get rid of any problems with this, and join the uprising here.

Wired describe what Sony did quite well.
Posted by Saltation_DUPE1, around 12th November 2005:
 
errr grim..., suggest you read the article i linked to
Posted by Grim..., around 13th November 2005:
 
Okay...

And?
Posted by Saltation_DUPE1, around 13th November 2005:
 
*tsk*

it's pointing out that sony's drm bullshit has been HIJACKED. it's not pointing out the drm rootkit, it's pointing out that that rootkit can be accessed by other apps (which never occurred to me)
Posted by Saltation_DUPE1, around 13th November 2005:
 
oh, and i've just read on a techblogsite that apparently it works on macs too, altho it asks for the administrator's password
Posted by Grim..., around 13th November 2005:
 
Aye, that's why I linked to wired:
That means that any hacker who can gain even rudimentary access to a Windows machine infected with the program now has the power to hide anything he wants under the "$sys$" cloak of invisibility. Criticism of Sony has largely focused on this theoretical possibility -- that black hats might piggyback on the First 4 Internet software for their own ends.
Posted by Saltation_DUPE1, around 13th November 2005:
 
ah ok, my bad -- i hit the wired article as the third of three that all looked like "oh look sony drm's a rootkit", read all the first, skimmed the second, hit the first para of the third and said "fuck this"

sorry, you're forgiven.

altho you should have linked just to the wired article rather than the other two redherrings, or said that it flagged the possibility of it being virus-able. for shame.