RE: Student faces suit over key to CD locks

["Trey Mujakporue/UK/Tesco" <trey.mujakporue () uk tesco com>]

Below is a comment from a colleague of mine

"Personally, I have autorun disabled on my laptop anyway so it'd never
get installed, but I wonder if it pops up a dialog to ask you if you
want this intrusive device driver installed on your system.  It's
clearly malicious code, since it limits the capabilities of your PC.  I
wonder if you could sue them for "hacking" your computer?"



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Paul L
Sent: 10 October 2003 15:25
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Subject: RE: [Full-disclosure] Student faces suit over key to CD locks


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Johan Denoyer [mailto:jdenoy () digital-connexion info]
> Sent: Friday, October 10, 2003 1:49 AM
> To: Richard M. Smith
> Cc: full-disclosure () lists netsys com
> Subject: Re: [Full-disclosure] Student faces suit over key to CD locks
>
> It's funny as how companys are running crazy. Throwing
> lawsuit at anyone that proves that they are complete idiots!
Not only that, but by annoucing they are going to sue, they hype the
press up so the general public knows about it as well.  As it was, the
security community and interested geeks were probably the only ones who
would have noticed the issue, but now the whole world knows.  Can you
imagine Johnny Slowpoke, who knows little to nothing about computers,
reading the article and saying, "Honey, look at this.  Some company made
copy protection for CDs that was so lame that all you have to do is hold
down the shift key to bypass it.  Can you imagine that?  How stupid is
that?  And now they're suing the student who pointed it out.  What a
bunch of dorks!"

Paul Schmehl (pauls () utdallas edu)
Adjunct Information Security Officer
The University of Texas at Dallas
AVIEN Founding Member
http://www.utdallas.edu/~pauls/ 

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