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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
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...

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