sony spying?

der.hans PLUGd at LuftHans.com
Fri Mar 23 12:06:25 MST 2007


Am 23. Mar, 2007 schwätzte Craig White so:

> On Fri, 2007-03-23 at 01:31 -0700, der.hans wrote:
>> moin moin,
>>
>> http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2007/01/sony.htm
>>
>> I hadn't realized they had also been spying on customers.
> ----
> you must have forgotten as it was a tremendous stink when it came out
> that several Sony Music CD's automatically installed spyware on your
> computer when you inserted it into a Windows computer.

I remember the stink about the rootkit, I just didn't realize it had been
phoning home.

I'm annoyed that Sony got off so easy after intentionally installing root
kits.

> naturally, those with the subject CD's should exchange them

And start a class action suit against Sony.

ciao,

der.hans
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