Premature Victory Declaration?
Thursday, 12. 1. 2005 – Category: General, Links, Meta, News
Mark Russinovich, the blogger who first publicly disclosed the Sony Rootkit, has written a new post summarizing the current state of affairs. Even though Sony officially recalled the infected discs two weeks ago, there are reports that Sony hasn’t properly been notifying stores about the recall, and many stores still have the discs on the [...]
A complete 360.
Tuesday, 11. 29. 2005 – Category: Meta
The good ol’ days, they’s gone, they are.
Study suggests DMCA takedown regs abused
Sunday, 11. 27. 2005 – Category: Meta
A study of 900 “DMCA takedown notices” shows that a third of them would likely be defeated in court: Study suggests DMCA takedown regs abused Also, don’t forget about our protest on Wednesday! -Tom
Slate.com Article
Sunday, 11. 20. 2005 – Category: Meta
Almost missed this… Slate.com has an article mentioning our protest here. I’ll take “motley” as a compliment. In more protest news, keep your calendars open for November 30th. We’re planning something at Tower records. More info to come in the next day or two. -fcb
Sounds like Sony is officially recalling all the CD’s it has shipped with the rootkit, before we even got a chance to take action ourselves! They’re also going to have an exchange program for people who already have the infected discs, and it sounds like they’re going to provide a better uninstaller. Meanwhile, Don Kaminsky, [...]
Mark Russinovich, who originally discovered the Sony Rootkit, has posted another update on the current state of things. There are two basic points which haven’t been covered yet…the first is that most AV vendors are removing the cloaking in the same unsafe way that the official patch does, which could cause your computer to crash. [...]
USA Today Article, Minutes
The Attorney General has proposed a tough new set of copyright enforcement laws dubbed the Intellectual Property Protection Act of 2005, or “IPPA”. It would criminalise consumers simply for trying to make unauthorised copies of music, movies and software, whether they are successful or not. The bill has not yet been put before Congress. US [...]
Quite a bit has been happening! First of all, virus/trojan writers have started leveraging the rootkit to hide their malware: First Trojan using Sony DRM spotted Sony is also being sued: Sony hit by lawsuits over root kit AV vendors also have started releasing tools to remove the rootkit-like portions of the XCP software, such [...]
Update on Sony Rootkit
Wednesday, 11. 9. 2005 – Category: Links, Meetings, Meta, News
First of all…our next meeting is Thursday, Nov. 10, 2005 at 8:00pm on the 7th floor of Kimmel. We (well, I can’t be there, but everyone else) will be discussing the impending lecture, our next demonstration, our newly allocated budget, and the Google Print debate happening on the 17th. Inga is also supposed to talk [...]
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