For those interested in the forensic process -- and in this case, computer
forensics -- be sure to check out this fine piece of digital detective work
by Mark Russinovich, a computer security expert with Sysinternals. He
discovered
evidence<
http://www.sysinternals.com/blog/2005/10/sony-rootkits-and-digital-rights.html>of
a "rootkit" on his Windows PC.
Through heroic forensic
work<
http://www.sysinternals.com/blog/2005/10/sony-rootkits-and-digital-rights.html>,
he traced the code to First 4 Internet, a British provider of
copy-restriction technology that has a deal with Sony to put digital rights
management on its CDs. It turns out Russinovich was infected with the
software when he played the Sony BMG CD Get Right With the Man by the Van
Zant brothers.
Here's WIRED Magazine's take on the story, "The Cover-Up Is the
Crime<
http://www.wired.com/news/rants/0,2350,69467,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_2>
"
And here's what Dan
Gillmor<
http://bayosphere.com/blog/dan_gillmor/20051103/sleazy_sony>had
to say about it, with additional links.
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-tom
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J. T. Johnson
Institute for Analytic Journalism
www.analyticjournalism.com <
http://www.analyticjournalism.com>
505.577.6482(c) 505.473.9646(h)
http://www.jtjohnson.com tom at jtjohnson.com
"He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense."
-John McCarthy, Stanford University mathematician
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