More Sony Rootkit News! YEAH!
Dec. 8th, 2005 12:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thewayneSony released an installer, only it installed an ActiveX control into your browser and made you vulnerable to more types of web-launched attacks. Gotta love it!
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,69763,00.html
But the BEST Sony news is this XCP copy protection contains Apple's DRM system! If you know what you're doing, you can play Sony XCP protected music in an iTunes player. The problem is that Apple hasn't licensed their DRM system to anyone, which could technically make Sony guilty of theft.
http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/?p=940
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,69763,00.html
But the BEST Sony news is this XCP copy protection contains Apple's DRM system! If you know what you're doing, you can play Sony XCP protected music in an iTunes player. The problem is that Apple hasn't licensed their DRM system to anyone, which could technically make Sony guilty of theft.
http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/?p=940
