crafty or clueless – Sony fails to learn its lesson the first time

When the story broke that Sony was loading unauthorized rootkits on the PCs hosting the
Sony USB memory stick, I was baffled.  Surely all the idiots were fired last time this happened – when it was discovered that rootkits were loaded from Sony DVDs.  Either Sony engineers are supremely stupid, thinking we wouldn’t object to a rootkit installed on our machines, or they are supremely stupid by thinking that we are supremely stupid – which we ain’t.
read up on this Wired magazine blog, or on engadget.

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