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RE: the "Sony/BMG" virus
From: "Todd Towles" <toddtowles () brookshires com>
Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 11:20:28 -0600
Marvin wrote:
Does anybody besides me believe that this may very well be an attempt by the misguided management of Sony / BMG to make all music buyers paranoid of ever inserting a music CD into a computer for any reason. Think about it, if they instill a fear of the possible presence of hidden "RootKits" or other malicious files on music CD's, it may just have the desired effect of keeping people through the use of fear tactics from ever again inserting a music CD in a computer CD drive ever again. Maybe they are not as stupid as they look at first glance. Very misguided, but not stupid. Sony / BMG will more than likely fire some mid level management employee for including the software without management approval and offer a free CD or two to appease those who may have been
harmed by the installation of the software. That way they get to save face and some poor schmuck loses his job so the moron's at the top look like innocent bystanders. I hope that the security community at large does not let this thing go away for a very long time to come, and even more so takes action to prevent this type of blantant abuse from ever happening again.
If Sony believes that doing this will stop user from inserting a CD into their computer...they have never worked in IT. While I think your point is valid and possible...people like you and me would (and should) never let a company scare the general public to that extend. It would be our collective job to stop this from happening. Security advocates battle large companies all the time on issues and in the end...we are just trying to protect us and the rest of the "cattle" world from pyscho CEOs with $ signs in their eyes. We should be able to listen to music on PCs...to not be able to do so..is crazy. People will find a way... Thank god..the music I like doesn't do things like this. My music taste can be described in the following quote. "Music Created with Machines for a Society that communicates with Machines. -Nube -Todd _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/
Current thread:
- RE: the "Sony/BMG" virus, (continued)
- RE: the "Sony/BMG" virus Todd Towles (Nov 11)
- Re: the "Sony/BMG" virus Kenneth Ng (Nov 11)
- Re: the "Sony/BMG" virus bkfsec (Nov 11)
- RE: the "Sony/BMG" virus Aditya Deshmukh (Nov 11)
- Re: the "Sony/BMG" virus bkfsec (Nov 12)
- Re: the "Sony/BMG" virus Kenneth Ng (Nov 11)
- Re: the "Sony/BMG" virus Buford T. Pisser (Nov 11)
- Re: the "Sony/BMG" virus Greg (Nov 11)
- RE: the "Sony/BMG" virus Todd Towles (Nov 11)
- Re: the "Sony/BMG" virus bkfsec (Nov 11)
- Re: the "Sony/BMG" virus Valdis . Kletnieks (Nov 11)
- Re: the "Sony/BMG" virus Greg (Nov 11)
- Re: the "Sony/BMG" virus n3td3v (Nov 11)
- Re: the "Sony/BMG" virus Scott T. Cameron (Nov 13)
- Re: the "Sony/BMG" virus n3td3v (Nov 11)
- Re: the "Sony/BMG" virus xyberpix (Nov 12)
- Re: the "Sony/BMG" virus Dude VanWinkle (Nov 13)