Wired on the Sony Rootkit-gate: "The cover-up is the crime"

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

Good point.

[snip]

Sony may even have committed a crime under the U.S. Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, which can carry fines and prison 
terms for anyone who "knowingly causes the transmission of a program ... and as a result of such conduct, intentionally 
causes damage, without authorization, to a protected computer." Corrupting Windows so it misreports the contents of a 
hard drive sounds a lot like "damage," and the click-wrap license agreement on the Sony disk amounts to pretty thin 
"authorization" -- disclosing only that "this CD will automatically install a small proprietary software program ... 
intended to protect the audio files embodied on the CD." 

[snip]

http://www.wired.com/news/rants/0,2350,69467,00.html

- ferg


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 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
 fergdawg () netzero net or fergdawg () sbcglobal net
 ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/


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