Sony Rootkits Its DRM, Part VI: RIAA ‘Bait & Switch’
Posted on November 23, 2005
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Somehow the head of the RIAA, Cary Sherman, thought that opening his mouth and speaking out about the Sony rootkit fiasco in an attempt to defend Sony was a good idea. It wasn’t, since he gets the facts patently wrong and/or outright lies about the situation:
The problem with the SonyBMG situation is that the technology they used contained a security vulnerability of which they were unaware.
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How many times that software applications created the same problem? Lots.
Wrong Cary. Wrong on many points. The problems are these:
- Sony intentionally put the rootkit software on its CDs.
- Sony intentionally used software that alters user’s computers for the worse.
- Software applications have never caused this problem, people who create and implement software applications do.
This is a less-than-clever, fairly clumsy attempt to blame this on some sort of unintentional, accidental software glitch, a bug, and it is anything but.
Incidentally, giving the choice between having the RIAA in your corner during a PR nightmare and having any assortment of famous serial killers speaking on your behalf, always choose the serial killers. They’re the lesser evil.
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