[Full-disclosure] This crap needs to stop

[Goetz Von Berlichingen]

Eliah Kagan wrote:
> To say that every time a company makes a mistake that hurts their
> users is as bad as Sony installing rootkits on people's computers
> nickels and dimes the issue of personal privacy and corporate spying
> and makes it more difficult to fight true corporate maliciousness.
> 
> On the other hand, yeah, something should be done about this. It's
> really, really bad when every once in a while a device ships with
> malware, whatever the intention.

   I remember buying a Sony laptop back in about 2001, running 
Systemworks on it, and getting back a report of 50-some odd registry 
problems and 4 instances of malcode (I think they were all virii).  I 
reformatted from the Sony-supplied image CDs and they were all on the 
images.

   I just don't think Sony cares what the consumer gets from them.

Goetz