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Security Now: Season 1

1x12 Sony's
TV-G

  • 2005-11-03T21:30:00Z on TWiT
  • 1h 30m
  • United States
  • News, Special Interest, Talk Show
Leo and I discuss details and consequences of Sony Corporation's alarming "Rootkit" DRM (digital rights management) copy protection scheme. This poorly written software unnecessarily employs classic rootkit technology (see episode #9) to hide from its users after installation. It can not be uninstalled easily, it can be easily misused for malicious purposes, and it has been implicated in many repeated BSOD "blue screen of death" PC crashes.
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