The President of the RIAA dismisses Sony's rootkit?

Did I read that correctly? That the head of a major trade organization endorses making your PC (and Macs, too) wide open to malware in the name of protecting something that's easily defeated by other means or available through other sources?

"The problem with the SonyBMG situation is that the technology they used contained a security vulnerability of which they were unaware. They have apologized for their mistake, ceased manufacture of CDs with that technology,and pulled CDs with that technology from store shelves. Seems very responsible to me. How many times that software applications created the same problem?"

He's assuming they were unaware of the security issues. I think they were, and they just didn't care.

This entry was posted by Kevin Creighton, on 11.21.2005. You can leave your response.