Sony rootkit timeline

[mdlbear]

Cory Doctorow over on BoingBoing has posted a great Sony anti-customer technology roundup and time-line. Oh, and the latest? Sony's "uninstaller" adds a security hole of its own. Apparently it installs a scriptable-by-anyone ActiveX control.

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[randwolf.livejournal.com]

Bruce Schneier's coverage to date:
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2005/11/more_on_sonys_d.html
It appears that the related area of law is going to abort, with results of interests to lawyers and, one hopes, consumers.