What would you say if you put an audio CD into your PC and as you listened to it (or possibly even before you listened to it) it dumped an app on your system without asking you first or even telling you? What would you say if you found out about this software but had a helluva time tracking it down--if you could track it down at all?
I know what I'd say and it sounds something like this: "OH, HELL, NO!!"
Only it'd probably have more swear words in there.
Anyway, so, this is Sony's new system for making sure their CDs aren't bootlegged.
[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/02/AR2005110202362.html|Read more about it in an article] at WaPo.
Or read [http://engadget.com/entry/1234000437066304/|how Sony has chosen to share their code with antivirus companies] at Engadget.com. This means that non-gearheads might actually be able to get their damn dirty apps off their hard drives.
God damn big businesses. Way to assume that we're all criminals out here. So, just to play a Sony CD on our machines, we have to let you stick your code on our boxes without us knowing a thing about it.
This is what hackers do.
These assholes should go to jail for invasion of privacy if nothing else.
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