Police Called In To Investigate Sony
Not only have ALCEI sued but they have now reported it to the Italian Police - Cyber crimes unit
http://www.smarthouse.com.au/Enterta.../News/Q7P7L4N2
cure worse than the problem
don't know if it's posted elsewhere :
BUT :
the 'cure' is also flawed
sony CD bug #2
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Sony BMG has admitted to a new security problem affecting nearly six million of its CDs, after the detection of vulnerability with the MediaMax patch it supplied on 6 December.
According to watchdog group the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) the most recent CD software "could allow malicious third parties … to gain control over a consumer's computer running the Windows operating system".
The EFF hired security firm Information Security Partners to analyse MediaMax. The company found a new vulnerability with the software that could allow unauthorised users to take full control of the computer's operations.
Hmmm :
me definately can smell compensation setting in :p
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Sony rootkit under fire in court
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Several class action lawsuits are being filed against Sony BMG over its controversial XCP anti-piracy software.
One case was filed in early November in California in which consumer Alexander Guevara asked the judge to ban Sony from selling any additional music CDs protected by anti-piracy software such as the XCP technology.
XCP aims to regulate the number of copies that a consumer can make of a CD on his computer as well as limit the file formats in which the CD can be ripped.
and NOW they are concerned that if others do this that it MAY cause 'problems :eek:
vnunet.com analysis: Sony CD rootkit could spell doom
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"I think that record companies should stop playing with rootkits and other 'black hat' techniques [before they] cause major grief to the customers," Niemela warned on
F-Secure's blog.