full-disclosure - the "Sony/BMG" virus

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date: Fri Nov 11 17:40:53 2005
From: Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu (Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu)
Subject: the "Sony/BMG" virus 

On Fri, 11 Nov 2005 11:13:06 CST, Todd Towles said:

> Would Sony just throw the software on millions of CD and ship them out
> without looking over the software first? I believe they WOULD HAVE to
> look over the software...as a step to protect their company from danger.

*WHAT* danger?  I mean, there's that button they clicked, the one that said 'I
accept, even though there's no hint that this includes a colon cleansing with a
scrub brush made from a week-old roadkill porcupine'.

Look around - there's no danger that a large corporation will feel any liability
for anything perpetrated by its software.  Only people who have to worry are
places that employ less than 100 people to write malicious software.

-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 226 bytes
Desc: not available
Url : http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/attachments/20051111/53e2c658/attachment.bin