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Scott Granneman, 2005-11-22

The big story the last few weeks has been the Sony BMG rootkit and in fact, it's the kind of story for which columnists drool: a big company does something unbelievably dumb that violates basic security principles. If you don't know what I'm talking about (and if you really don't, I'm amazed - you need to follow the news more!), you can read excellent coverage on SecurityFocus, plus a good write-up on Wired, or catch up with a timeline of events brought to you by Boing Boing (parts one, two and three).

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Re: Sony-baloney 2005-11-25
Anonymous (1 replies)
This whole thing has brought one thing into clear focus for me, that is to never buy hardware from a company that has a vested interest in content. The temptation appears too great for the content side of the business to steamroll the hardware side into putting "secret stuff" into their hardware (i.e. stuff that if made public would make people not want to buy the hardware) in order to further the DRM goals of the content side of the business. We should all learn this lesson and not buy hardware from a company that has a conflict of interest regarding the integrity of the hardware they are selling.

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