Concerning the issues surrounding Sony’s Digital Rights Management (DRM) software that unknown-to-the-users installs rootkit spyware technology on a user’s computer (see yesterday’s post: Sony DRM Installs Rootkit on Your System), Sony’s response seems to have, well, made things worse for their reputation among security gurus.
As reported by Download.com’s Spyware bloggers:
And even if you�re well-versed in matters of privacy and security, you�ll probably find this quote from Sony executive Thomas Hesse pretty amusing:
Most people, I think, don�t even know what a rootkit is, so why should they care about it?
This verbal gaffe leads me to believe the folks at Sony are a bit out of the loop on how rootkits can be used for nefarious purposes and how serious the spyware epidemic has become.
Neda Ulaby posted an interesting audio post about the issue, along with Hesse’s gaffe on NPR’s Morning Edition website: Sony Music CDs Under Fire from Privacy Advocates. Ulaby closes the interview with this statement:
“Every single computer expert interviewed said they would no longer copy such protected CDs from any company to their computers, and they warned about intrusive copy-protection software that may soon be attached to games and DVDs.”
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