Sony releases rookit uninstaller — sort of
These People are IDIOTS and just don’t, and never will get it. It just goes to show that you do not have to be smart to run a company.
They have the Gall to put this advisory on it.
Boing Boing: Sony *finally* releases rookit uninstaller — sort of
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Please be advised that this program is protected by all applicable intellectual property and unfair competition laws, including patent, copyright and trade secret laws, and that all uses, including reverse engineering, in violation thereof are prohibited.
By the way, I am marking this as humor in my wordpress categories…
December 6th, 2005 at 2:50 pm
Of course they’d be scared of that. What a bunch of losers. However, that’s not going to help them at all. Their rootkit was not discovered by reverse engineering. It was discovered by forensic analysis. Mark found something was wrong and traced back what had happened. The only people that might be accused of “reverse engineering” are the people that have been finding all the code that Sony stole from GPL-protected sources, though iirc, they weren’t even decompiling the stuff, they were just finding text strings in the binaries. I imagine Sony’s “protection” would easily be tossed out in a court considering their track record (of incompetence) so far. Let’s hope they do sue someone. We need someone like them to get the DMCA overturned.
December 6th, 2005 at 6:07 pm
Simply put in a nutshell… Sony Corp. made a BIG mistake, and got CAUGHT making the bigmistake. This one is of epic proportions. Sony was busted by someone that is simply smarter than them. This guy (Mark Russinovich) is part of Sysinternals/Winternals, and is pretty sharp. Check out the URL attached. - MB
December 8th, 2005 at 9:15 am
On Computers Tips: New Sony CD security risk found
a NEW one, been in place for 8 months, and they didn’t announce it till the copy protection company had a fix, to summarize.