tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-194516872011-04-21T20:31:32.539-07:00Gigihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07296338327940315359noreply@blogger.comBlogger11100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19451687.post-1133361189530650102005-11-30T06:05:00.000-08:002005-11-30T07:06:17.186-08:00<img src="http://static.flickr.com/12/68664502_882b2a4a01_m.jpg" alt="button: NO XMAS" border="0" vspace="10" hspace="10" align=right/><br />It's simple.<br /><br />For a good chunk of 2005 buying a Sony CD and playing it in your computer meant that their player installed a <a href="http://www.sysinternals.com/blog/2005/10/sony-rootkits-and-digital-rights.html">rootkit</a> on your computer. Essentially, it installed files on your computer and then cloaked them, making it impossible for you to know that your computer had been compromised.<br /><br />Among other <a href="http://www3.ca.com/securityadvisor/pest/pest.aspx?id=453096362">questionable things</a>, the method it used to achieve this "cloaking" meant that other people, even malicious strangers, could install files on your computer, and you would never know it happened.<br /><br />If you or I distributed a CD with this "feature" we'd be looking at jail time.<br /><br />There is only one language corporations speak: currency. So this year, let's speak it. Loudly.<br /><br />Buy no Sony products this Christmas and let them know what you think about their little DRM escapade.<br /><br />No Sony for Xmas == No Xmas for Sony.<br /><a href="http://www.sysinternals.com/blog/2005/10/sony-rootkits-and-digital-rights.html"></a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19451687-113336118953065010?l=noxmas.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Gigihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07296338327940315359noreply@blogger.com1