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Researcher: Sony BMG "rootkit" still widespread
Robert Lemos, SecurityFocus 2006-01-16

WASHINGTON D.C. -- Hundreds of thousands of networks across the globe, including many military and government networks, appear to still contain PCs with the controversial copy-protection software installed by music discs sold by media giant Sony BMG, a security researcher told attendees at the ShmooCon hacking conference this weekend.

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Researcher: Sony BMG "rootkit" still widespread 2006-01-17
Anonymous
"fairly likely that a lot of the disks were pirated." Mmmkay. so much for this particular DRM scheme. I'm no security researcher, just a grumpy old bat who's seen it all- I'll bet money that professional CD pirates weren't even slowed down by this thing, only Sony's own paying customers got screwed ...

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