KVR Audio

soulkraka · Post by **soulkraka** » Wed Nov 16, 2005 5:48 pm

http://www.ciocentral.com/article/Sonys ... 172_1.aspx

I remember reading that linux and mac os users were safe...apparently not.

whyterabbyt · Post by **whyterabbyt** » Wed Nov 16, 2005 5:54 pm

Too much anti-alising.

soulkraka · Post by **soulkraka** » Wed Nov 16, 2005 5:55 pm

related news...

500,000 infections and counting....*sigh* and to think that I actually saved my allowance money when I was a kid to buy a Sony Walkman....schmucks

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1887181,00.asp

tetraplan · Post by **tetraplan** » Wed Nov 16, 2005 6:13 pm

The first bit of serious malware for OS X and it's distributed by a major corporation. heh.
Let's not support Sony, like, ever again, m'kay?

I'm wondering if half a million lawsuits could put these guys out of business.
//enjoys the thought for a moment

//edit
Interesting comment on the site soulkraka posted:

a sadly anonymous commenter wrote:You want to play a CD and get prompted for a password? Hang on!
Anyone who knows the Mac security model will take that CD straight back to the store.
It's asking for superuser privilege just to play some music!

Groet, Erik

diverdee · Post by **diverdee** » Wed Nov 16, 2005 6:17 pm

damn didn't realise they had this going on also:

Sir Howard Stringer (Sony's head) now faces a massive business problem, and his company's future in electronic media may well hang in the balance. He runs the risk of alienating not just the music customers, but the Playstation gamers as well.

Why? Ignoring the PR fallout from the rootkit, Sony just got a patent on a method of restricting game software to one copy on one particular machine. They seem to think that this kind of lockdown will be tolerated by its customers. Someone sell these guys a clue.

So no more buying & selling of second hand games - damn these greedy, aquisitive, gravalicious bastards just never fuckin learn do they?

Thing is if they go ahead with this the legitimate users who want to buy/sell 2nd hand will be penalised & no doubt some clever hackers will work out how to chip the box etc. & bypass the protection so that games can be P2P'd.

Oh and this ones nice:

But wait, there's even more.

Someone in the Netherlands did a decompile on the XCP rootkit that has gotten most of the attention lately. It seems that parts of the rootkit use the LAME mp3 encoder, which is licensed under the Lesser GPL. That means by delivering only an executable (the rootkit) without source or crediting, XCP violates the GPL Violating the GPL puts Sony at massive legal risk for—wait for it—copyright infringement.

The irony is just crushing.

and:

"Most people don't know what a rootkit is, so why should they care about it," Thomas Hesse, president of Sony BMG's global digital business, said in an interview with National Public Radio on Friday.

What an arrogant bastard

soulkraka · Post by **soulkraka** » Wed Nov 16, 2005 6:23 pm

its just utterly pointless...makes ZERO sense.

not to mention the fact that the rootkit can be used to defeat itself - rename your choice of burning app to $sys$<name> and it's invisible to them.

androidlove · Post by **androidlove** » Wed Nov 16, 2005 6:24 pm

diverdee wrote:So no more buying & selling of second hand games

why bother with sony anyway? they don't have mario, pokemon, or (hopes for a sequel) banjo.

Anyone tried Sony rootkit for OSX yet?