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Re: Sony: The Return Of The Rootkit



According to Mikko Hyppönen's post to F-Secure's blog Sony Electronics has 
confirmed that they received the research report this week:
http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/archive-082007.html#00001266

The post says that companies have opened direct discussion channels and Sony 
will receive the  internal technical report of the case.

Maybe we will see an official response document from Sony later.

- Juha-Matti

Paul Sebastian Ziegler <psz@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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Quark IT - Hilton Travis schrieb:
> Hi All,
>
> Apparently Sony cannot learn from their past and have introduced another
> rootkit with another of their devices.  This time it is their Microvault
> USB drive that has fingerprint security.

That is not exactly new news.

The devices are old and all that is "rootkit-like" about them is the
fact that they interact with the kernel in order to hide their own files
from corruption.

Not everything that interacts with the kernel is a rootkit. Or would
anyone want to classify GRSecurity as a rootkit? RBAC will let you hide
parts of your filesystem as well...

> Have a read of

Have another one:
http://observed.de/?entnum=101

Now I was outraged by Sony's Copyprotection Rootkit - but this is simply
something different.

Many Greetings
Paul

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