...imagine using the Sony rootkit to cheat you out of your banking/investment/email/keystroke information...

To think this rootkit installs itself from a music CD...

This whole DRM thing is starting to remind me of the nuclear arms race...imagine how many boxes are infected with this rootkit...does this rootkit come with a self-destruct? Someway to be updated?

In Sony's race to protect their content rights, they have created a more perfect platform for crackers...

At which point in the--listening to some music on a computer process-- does a user agree to have a rootkit installed on their machine? That is like selling a car to someone with a remote kill switch on it (say, in case they don't pay their car payment) but not telling them that their car has such a "feature" --- then later some clever folks figure out that you can trigger the kill switch using $15 in radio hack parts...next thing you know you are hearing about massive pile-ups on the freeway because 15 cars were simultaneously killed ...using said feature...

Look for a Sony BMG 'dirty bomb' coming to a network near you...

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