[ale] Sony rootkit CDs

[James P. Kinney III]

On Mon, 2005-11-14 at 21:33 -0500, Daniel Howard wrote:

> 
> Excuse the lack of knowledge of current affairs, but when I Googled
> "world of warfcraft" I got what looks like one of those role playing
> game sites; can someone explain the paragraph immediately above this
> one?  What is a "cheat" and what is a "guardian?"  What does this have
> to do with antispyware/antipryware?
> 
> Regards, and sorry for being a middle-aged Linux enthusiast,
> Daniel

Wow!! An Ale'er that _doesn't_ read slashdot!! ;)

Basically, Sony used some DRM software to install a rootkit onto windows
machines. The rootkit has since been hacked/exploited to be used to
cheat in the "world of warcraft" game. It allows the cheater to access
information about the other players they were not intended to have by
the game authors.

I have neither Sony DRM music CD nor WoW game so I can't "play" beyond
that. Nor do I have a Window$ machine to put it all on. 

OK. Sort of. There is ONE physical winders box that my kids use just for
games and ONE VMware winders box just for building BartsPE disks with.

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