Comfortable Disappearance

Sony is taking a new approach to protecting it’s music, by using an old hacker trademark technique: installing a rootkit onto your computer. A rootkit is a piece of software that installs itself deep into your computer (deeper than spyware), and can allow for a person to have complete and total control of your computer. This is a ridiculous breach of privacy, and pretty I find it amazing that they are doing this. Of course, Sony is rightfully getting blasted in media.

However, the thing that surprised me the most was Sony’s Director of Global Business’ comment on the matter:

Most people, I think, don’t even know what a root kit is, so why should they care about it? (1:57 on NPR)

I think I’ll leave it at that…