{"id":45,"date":"2005-11-04T04:54:22","date_gmt":"2005-11-04T08:54:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chase.net.au\/index.php\/2005\/11\/sony-ships-rootkits-on-cds\/"},"modified":"2005-11-04T04:54:22","modified_gmt":"2005-11-04T08:54:22","slug":"sony-ships-rootkits-on-cds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.chase.net.au\/index.php\/2005\/11\/sony-ships-rootkits-on-cds\/","title":{"rendered":"Sony ships rootkits on CDs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Looks like Sony has turned to rootkits (an advanced technique used in virus writing) to infect people&rsquo;s computers when you play some of their CDs.&nbsp; The full story is over on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sysinternals.com\/blog\/2005\/10\/sony-rootkits-and-digital-rights.html\">Sysinternals<\/a>&nbsp;blog but to summarize, Sony secretly installs code on your computer then hacks the kernel to prevent you detecting that they&rsquo;ve actually done anything.&nbsp; If you try to remove the problem by deleting the files (no uninstall is provided) then your CD drive vanishes!<\/p>\n<p>You have to love DRM, don&rsquo;t you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looks like Sony has turned to rootkits (an advanced technique used in virus writing) to infect people&rsquo;s computers when you play some of their CDs.&nbsp; The full story is over on the Sysinternals&nbsp;blog but to summarize, Sony secretly installs code on your computer then hacks the kernel to prevent you detecting that they&rsquo;ve actually done [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.chase.net.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.chase.net.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.chase.net.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.chase.net.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.chase.net.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.chase.net.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.chase.net.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.chase.net.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.chase.net.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}