Re: Sony to patch copy-protected,

["Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah" <rMslade () shaw ca>]

Date sent:              Wed, 2 Nov 2005 14:29:21 -0800
From:                   Rob Thompson <my.security.lists () gmail com>

> Sad part is the patch that they are pushing out via their website
> attempts to install itself via ActiveX.  As far as I know, doing it
> that way, doesn't that mean that they are taking away our ability to
> see what exactly they are doing to our machine when they "patch" it? 
> As there isn't an actual executable that can be taken apart and
> analyzed?

Hey, if you can't fool a Web server and decompile the ActiveX control, we're 
going to have to take away your copy of Ida Pro ...

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