Should SONY Go to Jail?
Federal authorities recently served Jeanson Ancheta with 17 Federal indictments for hacking about 400,000 computers to install pop-up "root-kits." The root-kits are designed to bypass computer security systems and allow "back-door" operations that manage adware, those annoying pop-ups that you can't get rid of without wiping your hard drive clean. Ancheta allegedly made about $60,000 off the scheme.
SONY recently took it on the chin from those watching such things for installing root-kits that cloak their copy protection software. Unfortunately, the SONY install left computer users with a hole big enough to drive a virus through. Essentially, anyone playing a SONY/BMG CD on their computer opened themselves up to the same type of adware that Ancheta installed through the backdoor.
Where is the 17-count indictment for SONY?
SONY did post a patch for the problem to its website. Who knows what else is in that!
SONY recently took it on the chin from those watching such things for installing root-kits that cloak their copy protection software. Unfortunately, the SONY install left computer users with a hole big enough to drive a virus through. Essentially, anyone playing a SONY/BMG CD on their computer opened themselves up to the same type of adware that Ancheta installed through the backdoor.
Where is the 17-count indictment for SONY?
SONY did post a patch for the problem to its website. Who knows what else is in that!
posted by Ben Pierce at 9:37 PM
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