[LAU] Looking for Audio Watermarking Advice & Tools

Fons Adriaensen fons at linuxaudio.org
Sun Oct 23 22:41:44 UTC 2011


On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 12:07:39AM +0200, Arnold Krille wrote:
 
> And that was neither a watermark in the audio, nor special track on the cd, 
> just a normal windows boot sector executing a stinking trojan and opening your 
> machine up to code execution from sony (and everyone who hacked sony or knew 
> how to use that insecure backdoor opened by sony on your machine).

The blame for executing any code from a medium that isn't supposed 
to have any executable content is and remains only with the system
that does it. It was a dirty trick from Sony, but possible only 
because Windows allowed it. 

And if some day a hacker exploits Linux desktops executing 'autorun'
files on USB sticks, don't blame that hacker but send him/her some
flowers. The blame is entirely on the system allowing that (usually
to create 'a rich user experience').

Ciao,

-- 
FA



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