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Hidden DRM code's legitimacy questioned
Robert Lemos, SecurityFocus 2005-11-02

The latest headache for security professionals has become a secret weapon in the battle between copyright owners and their customers.

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Hidden DRM code's legitimacy questioned 2005-11-02
Anonymous
yipee! 32800 rootkitted computers just waiting to be re-rooted! thank you Sony!...

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Hidden DRM code's legitimacy questioned 2005-11-02
Anonymous
Smells like class action time....

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Sony Has Gone Too Far (www.QuickTrivia.com) 2005-11-03
Anonymous
Sony has gone too far with the latest gatbage- I'm don't buying music from them forever.

Mike

http://www.QuickTrivia.com...

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Hidden DRM code's legitimacy questioned 2005-11-03
Anonymous
i know that ive been out of the security loop for some time, although this is the first time that ive heard about the utilization of window's auto-run feature in conjuction with nefarious software. time to shoot an email to my old boss/admin to rub in that i was right about disabling the auto-run. ...

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$15.00 Professional Rootkit! What a deal! 2005-11-07
Anonymous (1 replies)
Heck ya. A professional rootkit for only $15.00. That's a steal! Furthermore, are virus scanners going to find it and flag it for the user, or is it going to be considered *safe* since it is kinda a legitimate program?...

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Re: $15.00 Professional Rootkit! What a deal! 2005-11-07
Anonymous
from what i am seeing one of the problems are that when the virus program runs its scan that it sees and removes the entries. In turn killing your OS. ...

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Hidden DRM code's legitimacy questioned 2005-11-10
Ryan Johnson
It's time to hit Sony where it hurts. In the pocketbook! For ideas, see http://henage.net/dan/security/sony-rootkit.html...

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Hidden DRM code's legitimacy questioned 2009-08-06
Brian Smith
This article incorrectly states that Sony provided a patch to "remove the copy-protection software from their [the user's] system."

Actually, the patch was 3.5MB and REINSTALLED the DRM software - only removing the "cloaking."

The software remained ON THE SYSTEM, continued to use system resour...

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