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Sony Rootkit
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Posted by: FadedMaster
http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/archives/004144.php
I just saw this on EFF today. Apparently Sony has a copy protection program that does a little more than just protect discs from being ripped.
Personally, I think it's crap. I rip every CD I buy in order to put on my MP3 player. My MP3 player lasts a lot longer than a portable CD player, is smaller, and I can take all my music with me everywhere.
Posted by: trekpsycho
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Originally Posted by FadedMaster
http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/archives/004144.php
I just saw this on EFF today. Apparently Sony has a copy protection program that does a little more than just protect discs from being ripped.
Personally, I think it's crap. I rip every CD I buy in order to put on my MP3 player. My MP3 player lasts a lot longer than a portable CD player, is smaller, and I can take all my music with me everywhere.
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I agree. I think that it is pretty crappy of a company to #1: Assume that I am a crook, and #2: Install software on my computer that hides itself and cannot be easily removed.
Also check this out: http://tech.monstersandcritics.com/...n_horse_hackers
I think Sony has blown it big time. People in California are already filing class action suits. Fortunately, I dont buy many CDs. If I had bought a Sony CD with this crap on it and had it installed on my computer, I would be looking for one of those class action suits myself.
Posted by: FadedMaster
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4430608.stm
Found that at BBC's news site. Guess they stopped makin' 'em.
Posted by: trekpsycho
Too little, too late.
Posted by: Bishop
Who buys music these days, anyways?
Posted by: TheeMon
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Originally Posted by Bishop
Who buys music these days, anyways?
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quoted for truth
Posted by: SKYHN
They should just go back to Vinyl.
Posted by: Shalome
More articles.. 
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Blizzard has gotten a bit of flack for their anti-cheating detection, a program named "The Warden" that scans a World of Warcraft player's harddrive for common hack and cheat files. However, with the discovery that merely playing a Sony music CD with Digital Rights Management software on it installs a file-hiding rootkit on a Windows computer, Blizzard hackers immediately found a way to fool the Warden.
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World of Warcraft hackers have confirmed that the hiding capabilities of Sony BMG's content protection software can make tools made for cheating in the online world impossible to detect. The software--deemed a "rootkit" by many security experts--is shipped with tens of thousands of the record company's music titles.
Blizzard Entertainment, the maker of World of Warcraft, has created a controversial program that detects cheaters by scanning the processes that are running at the time the game is played. Called the Warden, the anti-cheating program cannot detect any files that are hidden with Sony BMG's content protection, which only requires that the hacker add the prefix "$sys$" to file names.
Despite making a patch available on Wednesday to consumers to amend its copy protection software's behavior, Sony BMG and First 4 Internet, the maker of the content protection technology, have both disputed claims that their system could harm the security of a Windows system. Yet, other software makers that rely on the integrity of the operating system are finding that hidden code makes security impossible.
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n the wake of bad press, Sony has offered to repair rootkit-affected computers, but it's too late -- who knows how many people have this rootkit on their computers? And how many of those people will even read a story about it, think "Oh, I should get this fixed," and then actually follow through? Sony has now opened up a huge amount of computers to potential worms, viruses, and trojans that can't be found by traditional antivirus software, and has given would-be hackers a great way to hide system files from programs like Blizzard's Warden.
Good going, Sony! Big thumbs-up from the blackhat community!
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Posted by: Shalome
Another article...
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In the comments section of the Sysinternals blog that made problems with Sony's Digital Rights Management software a big stinking public mess, a poster has pointed out that you can use Sony's DRM to circumvent itself.
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If you want a more concrete proof, try to rename your favourite ripping software as $sys$whatever.exe and then run it again. You'll notice that the DRM system can no longer detect it, and thus you'll get good copy of the track you try to rip instead of one filled with noise.
Thats just hilarious. I think everyone should simply not worry about removing the rootkit, as this is too difficult, and then just do at Matti says, and use the rootkit to make your favorite ripping tool immune to the DRM. On second thought, is their software breaking the DMCA? It provides a method to bypass copyright protection that they install? Hmm...
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So, should Sony's next step be to sue themselves for violating the DMCA? This whole thing just keeps getting more and more hilarious.
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Posted by: IceBreaker
The empire strikes back
Posted by: FadedMaster
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Haha, I love the link title.
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