I've said it before, and I'll say it again: there's nothing more dangerous than an idiot with initiative. Sony is now recalling all CD's protected by their controversial DRM technology. This is probably a good thing, since folks digging around the uninstaller noticed the fact that the rootkit removal tool is itself a rootkit.
No, seriously - it's an ActiveX, it's marked "safe for scripting," and the developers broke one of the cardinal rules of ActiveX - i.e. if you say it's "safe", it shouldn't for example be able to connect to an arbitrary Internet site, download software, and execute it. Ouch. As a former developer, I can tell you "never do that".
In other news, BlackHat just got bought by the folks that brought us CSI.
Posted by Ed at November 16, 2005 01:14 PM