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Story: Flaw found in Sony DRM patch

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You should know that

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Sony has not recalled anything, at least as that term is understood in general commercial use... it's only a "voluntary exchange", and millions of malware-infected CDs are being deliberately left on store shelves where they can infect as many customers as possible over the Christmas shopping season.

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When Sony went looking for malware to install on PCs the people they went to who wrote the secretly-installed spyware did not just stop with Sony as a client. F4I's XCP was new, custom built to Sony specifications, but the Sunncomm Mediamax spyware has an installed base of non-Sony titles that don't carry any warning that they are infected with the Mediamax malware.

http://www.eff.org/IP/DRM/Sony-BMG/mediamaxlist.php

Sunncomm has infected the disks, has them listed on their tech support site in case people ask why their PCs are screwed up, but no warning is given on the CDs themselves.

http://www.sunncomm.com/support/askthetech.asp

Sunncomm and Mediamax, two supposedly separate penny stocks that share the same office space, have been busy peddling their malware and its "Perfect Placement" spyware to anyone they could BS into carrying it... even children's organizations:

http://www.signal42.com/mediamax_technology_partners_with_child_safety_network_to_create_dynamic_multimedia_safety_education_gdb.aspx

Just thought you should know.

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