I'd love to write about something else, but this story keeps going and going and going. Now we have reports that Sony's malware has opened consumers' (yes, customers, people who actually bought their CDs) computers to other malware.
Memo to all of us smug Apple computadors: Sony doesn't discriminate. It turns out, Sony BMG is using SunnCom DRM to install kernal extensions on your machines. That's in addition to the F4i root kit infestation that PC users are complaining about.
I was checking out Hack A Day, which listed an iPod remote control hack. When I pulled it up, it turned out to be a controller that works off of T + A's remote control buss. Pretty cool, if somewhat narrowly focused.
I don't know anything about this, other than what you see on the URL, but it's free and it has a lot of stuff I haven't been able to see yet. Probably worth checking out if you're in the nabe.
Being caught sneaking into consumers' computers with its malware DRM may have just been the beginning of Sony BMG's problems. Paradoxiically, getting rid of it may put consumers afoul of the DMRC.