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[IP] Sony: Folks don't know about rootkits, why should they care?





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From: Richard Forno <rforno@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: November 8, 2005 7:10:37 AM EST
To: Infowarrior List <infowarrior@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Dave Farber <dave@xxxxxxxxxx>, Bruce Schneier <schneier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Sony: Folks don't know about rootkits, why should they care?


I kid you not: In an NPR story discussing the Sony DRM fiasco, Thomas Hesse, President of Sony's Global Digital Business, says: "Most people, I think,
don't even know what a rootkit is, so why should they care about it?"

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4989260

Sony, you are digging yourselves deeper and deeper into the grave, here.

-rick
Infowarrior.org



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