California suing over Sony DRM Rootkit
In the 06:35 PM ET, 11/ 8/2005 posting in the Brian Krebs blog on the Washington times website, Brian tells us that California is suing Sony over its DRM technology.
Another interesting angle to this story is that now a large company with vast resources is actually investing RnD into creating Windows Exploits, and once they are dissected, malware authors are using the findings in their trojans.
So when MS explains that the only way to get truly high quality software is to develop it in a proprietary model, are they also now referring to malware? Are trojan horses created by commercial enterprises better than the open source variety?
In case you wanted to stay away from the Sony malware, many people are publishing lists of CDs to avoid buying.
Another interesting angle to this story is that now a large company with vast resources is actually investing RnD into creating Windows Exploits, and once they are dissected, malware authors are using the findings in their trojans.
So when MS explains that the only way to get truly high quality software is to develop it in a proprietary model, are they also now referring to malware? Are trojan horses created by commercial enterprises better than the open source variety?
In case you wanted to stay away from the Sony malware, many people are publishing lists of CDs to avoid buying.
