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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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Point-by-Point 2005-11-22
Matthew Murphy
#1-3: Banning CDs will eventually happen -- businesses started to ban floppies in the day of boot sector viruses. If the CD's capacity to introduce malicious code becomes better-known, we may well see an outright ban on CDs.

However, the technically-versed among us will note that the rootkit onl...

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