Sony: The Return Of The Rootkit

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.

Have a read of
http://hiltont.blogspot.com/2007/08/sony-rootkit-version-2.html for my "WHAT!?!?!? You're kidding?" on it and also http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/archive-082007.html#00001263 for the original report from F-Secure.

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