Thanks for installing malicious stealth software on people’s computers when they play CDs.
It would be a terrible shame if someone put one of their CDs into a machine that happened to control some part of the infrastructure here in the U.S. that is responsible for people’s lives, and that machine happened to fail, because then they would be guilty of industrial terrorism. And that would be bad.
If that first link above makes your eyes glaze over, a simpler version of the story can be found at the WFMU blog, where I found the story in the first place.
Don’t buy copy protected CDs. And if you happen to get one, join a class action suit. They need to get spanked hard for rootkitting people’s machines like this.
Be My Blog 
copy-protected CDs don’t have the official CD logo because they don’t follow the spec. I salute Phillips for not bending the rules.
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You mean like the LAFD dispatcher you heard using AIM?
“Copy-protected CD takes down e-911: Sony presses PR nuclear holocaust button”
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Thanks for the link!
Thanks! There’s now a trackback link from the original post to your page here.
– Kenzo
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Re: Thanks for the link!
Oh cool. I looked first at the sysinternals page and saw no trackback and then realized you meant the WFMU page. I didn’t know LJ did trackbacks properly at all!
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Re: Thanks for the link!
Yeah, I realized that was ambiguous right after I’d submitted my comment. And you’re right about LJ not doing trackbacks: I had to hack that in myself!
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