Posted by Goro on 11/23/05 15:03

Bob wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Nov 2005 20:22:02 -0500, Rich <none@none.com> wrote:
>
> >More Sony horror:
> >
> > Sony's rootkit uninstaller is *really* dangerous
>
> I nominate Sony for the Darwin Award. It not only shot itself in the
> balls, it took out anyone stupid enough to buy Sony products.
>
> The world is going to be a better place for having removed a criminal
> organization and stupid people at the same time.
>
> Maybe we should call it the SuperDarwin Award.

Yes, the amazing thing is that SOny fscked up SO much that even the
general public is starting to gain awareness about "rootkits".

(when the story first broke and i tried to explain this to some
friends, they gave me basicaly a *shrug*. Later, when the media
started running stories on it, they started asking me about it)

-goro-

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