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Sony DRM -- from bad to worse]
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 16:24:04 -0500
-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Sony DRM -- from bad to worse Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 15:49:11 -0500 From: Steven M. Bellovin <smb () cs columbia edu> To: dave () farber netSony has compounded their arrogance -- silently installing abuseable software on your machine -- with apparent incompetence, at least on the part of their vendor. According to Ed Felten's blog ( http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/ ), the removal tool that First4Internet supplies is an ActiveX control marked "safe for scripting". That means it can be invoked by any web page -- and it can be used to install new software on your machine....
The problem was first found by a Finnish researcher named Muzzy; see http://hack.fi/~muzzy/sony-drm/ for details. --Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as lists-ip () insecure org To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
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