Posted by Brendan R. Wehrung on 01/20/06 07:52

"Pat Horridge" (pat@remove-spam.vet.co.uk) writes:
> "Martin Heffels" <mitch.mcNeilljn@sprint.ca> wrote in message
> news:dt4vs1tj7atb4r063g9h5482fjaa1atsg1@4ax.com...
>> On Thu, 19 Jan 2006 07:03:15 -0600, Awelch <bozo2@ticon.net> wrote:
>>
>>>AnthonyR. wrote:
>>>> "Smarty" <nobody@nobody.com> wrote in message
>>>> news:K9WdnVtr6v7-aVveRVn-qw@adelphia.com...
>>>Maybe Gary, like a lot of us, doesn't trust Sony now because of
>>>rootpack. I have a Sony camera but wont buy Sony now.
>>
>> A camera won't install a rootkit ;-)
>>
>> -m-
> Maybe not but after a stunt like that who knows what they would consider an
> ok technical improvement.
> Say they decide to add some type of Digital signature to the DV stream in
> camera so Sony post products can identify and "optimise" performance with
> only Sony DV streams but this is then found to screw other non Sony
> products.
> Unbelievable? Would have said so once... Now....
>
>


Perhaps the most distrubing aspect of the rootkit fiasco is that Sony
doesn't give a shit about what the software might do to a future operating
system. They may be just stories, but supposedly Widnows Vista testers
had crash problems after the root-kit was installed. I had a Windows
Media Player patch disable all my audio and DVD burning programs except
Record Now (was able to delete it), and that was written for the XP
system. I hope the suits that make such programs illegal succeed.

Brendan

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