[LINK] Microsoft Will Remove Sony Rootkit

[Rick Welykochy]

Con Zymaris wrote:

>>>Microsoft Will Remove Sony Rootkit
>>>  After dithering for a few days over whether to categorize Sony's new
>>>audio CD copy protection system as spyware, Microsoft on Friday
>>>announced that the next update to its antispyware package would indeed
>>>remove the Sony code from users' PCs. Microsoft will include the
>>>removal code in an update to the recently renamed Windows Defender,
>>>formerly Windows AntiSpyware. Sony's system is based on a rootkit,
>>>typically used by malicious hackers to keep their malware hidden. Sony
>>>was using it to prevent users from pirating its CDs.
> 
> 
> Read these too:
> 
>  http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20051113164717817
> 
> and
> 
>  http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20051115001431715

Wait a minute.

If I distribute software that installs a rootkit, you can be sure that
I would be up for prosecution under anti-hacking laws.

What's going on here? One law for the plebs and another for corporations?

cheers
rickw




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