November 28, 2005

Pre-history of the Sony rootkit

From BoingBoing:

Cory Doctorow: An old email thread shows the early efforts of the authors of Sony’s infamous rootkit. In 2003, Ceri Coburn (to whom first4internet.com is registered) appeared as a novice programmer in a technical mailing list, asking questions about how to cripple CD drives…

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