[linux-audio-user] [OT] Audio CDs/DRM/Windows rootkit. What's next?

[Mark Knecht]

On 11/4/05, Burkhard Woelfel <versuchsanstalt at gmx.de> wrote:
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> On Thursday 03 November 2005 15:04, Wolfgang Woehl wrote:
> > studio-64 <fsmith at walescomputers.co.uk>:
> > > Try this for an update:
> > > http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/11/02/1421250
> > > PS this really is the war Zone, they get this through and we all
> > > lose!!
> >
> > Come on, FonyBMG and all the other biggies are idiot thieves on a
> > desperate rampage. In the past decade music industry has panicked out
> > of every single smart thing. They managed to screw their own A&R for
> > good. It's fun actually to watch them and their crap go down. A badly
> > written rootkit from Sony? I'm laughing essential parts of my body off
> > right now.
> >
> > Wolfgang
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> Spiegel.De reporting about "the PR debacle" (in german)
> <http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/netzkultur/0,1518,383051,00.html>
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> - - Burkhard

I have not yet found any non-Linux English report on this that points
out it's really Microsoft's lack of system security that would let a
CDROM install system files that cause the problem, right?

- Mark