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Posted: 4th Nov 2005 18:56
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4406178.stm

Sony come across as serious hypocrites, seeing that they make the minidisk and all , now they are mucking around with a system that could force you to re-install windows to get the use of your CD drive back if you try to remove their dumb inferior music quality player, and it doesn`t even work on Mac/Linux, how dumb can you get?, how long till this gets hacked? guesses.



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David R
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Posted: 4th Nov 2005 19:01
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24 hours


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Hawkeye
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Posted: 4th Nov 2005 19:07
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Less, probally...

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Posted: 4th Nov 2005 19:52
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A funny story to complement it http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/11/04/secfocus_wow_bot/


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Posted: 4th Nov 2005 19:58 Edited at: 4th Nov 2005 20:11
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roflmao...hooo! thats rich!, I can see the headlines now "Sony help hackers to defeat windows security", "Sony simplifies hacking of Windows PC`s", "Sony managment arrested for hacking 265400000 pc`s", I love it , it just gets "better" (checks CD collection ).

in fact reading that again, they seem to have done something monumentaly dumb, as far as I can tell they have made it so that anyone who played a Sony CD on their PC can be hacked by any EXE that starts with the protection softwares "$sys$" prefix, it can`t be seen by any AV or anything, thats realy...realy...realy DUMB .



(I notice Philips (who developd the CD standard) are refusing to allow Sony to call their "CD`s" "Compact Disk" because they breach the standard, so they shouldn`t have the CD logo on the cases/artwork, they realy are killing themselves for the sake of nothing here, bad decisions all through the company imo)

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Hawkeye
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Posted: 4th Nov 2005 20:09
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ROFL, Sony is soooo in over their head on this...

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blanky
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Posted: 4th Nov 2005 20:35 Edited at: 4th Nov 2005 20:35
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Open up Notepad, right some crap in the document. Save it in c:windowssystem32 (c:winntsystem32, Win2k+NT users) with a filename of something like $sys$_rofl_sonysux0r.txt.

Anybody notice it disappear when you go browsing for it? (Just checking whether El Reg's theory is correct, but I haven't bought any recent Sony CDs )

(Btw, TheRegister is my homepage, so I've already read that article ^_^).
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2 - 30 minutes

Forgot my password so I created a new account.
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Posted: 4th Nov 2005 20:56 Edited at: 4th Nov 2005 20:58
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I don`t have any Sony media either or I would have tested it before posting, but it does sound like they made a bit of a ...er..mistake, it must say something about the label and the class of music they put out that I don`t even have one CD, mind you I only have a hundred or so CD`s and a lot of those are classical, most of my listening is streamed off the net or podcasts nowadays.



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Posted: 12th Nov 2005 12:13
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ongoing...an update on the Sony anti-piracy foul up.

http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn8307

seems like it`s just as was thought, some guys already released a virus that can use Sonys anti-copy stupidity to infect peoples PC`s and take control, so if you ever played any Sony disks on your PC....well.....you might want to check you`re still secure.



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Posted: 12th Nov 2005 12:36
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Makes me even MORE glad that I havn't bought a CD in ten years.
btw: always turn off the auto-play "feature" of your cdrom drive.

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Posted: 12th Nov 2005 15:17
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Did anyone hear what Sony's defense statement was?

Quote: "No one really knows what a rootkit is anyway"


Yeah you read that correctly.


http://forum.thegamecreators.com/?m=forum_view&t=63573&b=5
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Posted: 12th Nov 2005 15:22
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ROFLMAO! well, nobody who matters, just hackers, and users, and kids, and games players, most of the inhabitants of a small planet in the unfashionable end of the galaxy and a small tribe in darkest Amazonia, apart from that NOBODY at Sony knows what it is .



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Posted: 12th Nov 2005 15:55
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Wow, im all up for some copy protection, but this is over the line.


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ROFL! That's so funny, Sony is helping hackers!!!!! THink about who can sue the crap out of Sony; well lets see there Microsoft because Sony products tamer with the Microsoft OS registry, Blizzard Entertainment because of all the hackers sony created, and like every user who gets pissed over that new system. Sony is really done for. Some more sites:
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=27508
http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=173601761
LOL I'm laughin so hard!!
Just look at all the people who already have, I got like 15 pages on google!

So I can't understand everything, I'm a floppy!!!!!!! I hold 1mb only!!!!!!!!!.....Stupid CDs
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Yeah this is big to us, but I told my parents about it and they were like "what!?" so I'm just waiting for this to reach pasts the people in tune to current technologies.


http://forum.thegamecreators.com/?m=forum_view&t=63573&b=5
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You people are so unlucky. I havent boughten a sony product since they first did stupid crap (TV broke in 3 days..it exploded.) I hate everything that says sony. argg! All my friends already knew about this. Hax0rzzz!11111 It also works on warcraft 3

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I hope as many people as possible sue sony.

So I can't understand everything, I'm a floppy!!!!!!! I hold 1mb only!!!!!!!!!.....Stupid CDs
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Posted: 14th Nov 2005 08:19
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lmao!
Quote: " "No one really knows what a rootkit is anyway" "
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Posted: 14th Nov 2005 09:50 Edited at: 14th Nov 2005 09:55
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Yay...I'm safe!!!!



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Posted: 14th Nov 2005 12:54
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lmao its a phony

If no-one gives your an answer to a question you have asked, consider:- Is your question clear.- Did you ask nicely.- Are you showing any effort to solve the problem yourself 
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What on BBC News???

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Posted: 14th Nov 2005 15:37
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hahahahahha

i suddenly wanna go buy WoW and get back at Blizzard for deleting my Diablo accounts.


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