The CD that hid a rootkit and ruined Sony BMG's reputation
A music CD installed a hidden rootkit on PCs, and one researcher’s October 31st discovery threatened to expose Sony BMG’s copy protection?
The CD that hid a rootkit and ruined Sony BMG's reputation
In this episode, we follow the moment a listener put a CD in his computer and found invasive software he never agreed to install. The episode traces the technical design and corporate decisions that put cloaking software on millions of discs and asks: how do you fall from that high?
Person: Mark Russinovich
Date: October 31, 2005
Company: Sony BMG Music Entertainment
Products: XCP (Extended Copy…
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