Yes, very entertaining reading - I must get to reading some of these blogs more often. First I'll have to win the lottery so I actually have the time. I forgot to mention that Mac users are not at risk by this Rootkit stuff. Neither would Linux users be for that matter. Thanx for the other linx /RF -----Original Message----- From: yello-bounces+rfiler=sierrawireless.com@mailman.xmission.com [mailto:yello-bounces+rfiler=sierrawireless.com@mailman.xmission.com] On Behalf Of organism@hydrophilus.com Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2005 8:58 PM To: iOwn Subject: [Yello] DRM=BAD Klonk Thu, 10 Nov 2005 19:52:34 -0800 veschprigt mroktar "Rory Filer" <rfiler@SierraWireless.com> [re: [Yello] DRM on Commercial Music CDs]:
Our blogger eventually had to resort to manual removal and in the process, the software did something to the registry which prevented the
PC from accessing the CDROM drive. The whole story is written up on his
blog at: ...
This has been all over the nerd news for the last few days. And it is far worse than that... the Sony RootKit punches such a hole in a winders pc that there now is in the wild a trojan that uses that same RootKit to pwn the machine. In short, Sony's greed now DIRECTLY enables winders pc infection. Oh, and the best part of all is that this DRM is very easily bypassed. Here's linkage to good articles. The comments below the articles provide genuinely valuable insight as well as the standard great comedy. IT: Trojan Using Sony DRM Rootkit Spotted http://it.slashdot.org/it/05/11/10/1615239.shtml?tid=172&tid=233 Your Rights Online: California Class Action Suit Sony Over Rootkit DRM http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/05/11/10/0024259.shtml?tid=233&tid=17 Apple: Former Apple Exec Speaks Against DRM http://apple.slashdot.org/apple/05/11/10/1948237.shtml?tid=176&tid=1 --gcr _______________________________________________ Yello mailing list Yello@mailman.xmission.com http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/yello Report list abuse to list-abuse at studio-nibble.com