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| Subject: | Re: Sony: The Return Of The Rootkit |
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| Date: | Thu, 30 Aug 2007 18:10:25 +0200 |
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 Quark IT - Hilton Travis schrieb:
Hi All, Apparently Sony cannot learn from their past and have introduced another rootkit with another of their devices. This time it is their Microvault USB drive that has fingerprint security.
That is not exactly new news. The devices are old and all that is "rootkit-like" about them is the fact that they interact with the kernel in order to hide their own files from corruption. Not everything that interacts with the kernel is a rootkit. Or would anyone want to classify GRSecurity as a rootkit? RBAC will let you hide parts of your filesystem as well...
Have a read of
Have another one: http://observed.de/?entnum=101 Now I was outraged by Sony's Copyprotection Rootkit - but this is simply something different. Many Greetings Paul -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFG1uvsaHrXRd80sY8RCvegAJ9C8GDeUIi5maRExcLnjdV4w3pCLACg8iDU pM7XA3bdpQ81EMytNaMBre0= =yk5I -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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