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Sony's DRM Rootkit: The Real Story - Schneier on Security

https://schneier.com/blog/archives/2005/11/sonys_drm_rootk.html

“This is my sixth column for Wired.com: It’s a David and Goliath story of the tech blogs defeating a mega-corporation. On Oct. 31, Mark Russinovich broke the story in his blog: Sony BMG Music Entertainment distributed a copy-protection scheme with music CDs that secretly installed a rootkit on computers. This...” (the page’s own description)

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