And it only gets better!
Apparently, Sony knew about the security flaws (they call 'em features *wink*) since the beginning of October. The flaws weren't told to the public (by an outsider) until the END of October. Now, what would happen to, say, a car company that hid a flaw for a month in the hopes it'd go unnoticed? It's called willful neglect. I hope they get strung up for this all the more.
First I thought they were stupid, just couldn't write good software.
Then I thought they were incompetant, for not checking what they put in (GPL code).
Now I think they're evil and should all burn for knowingly and willingly letting this stay out for a month as vulnerable as it is!
But luckily for us, the consumer, Sony-BMG had this to say:
"We're very, very sorry for the disruption and inconvenience that this has caused to music consumers," (Thomas Hesse, president of Sony BMG's Global Digital Business).
That guy is a grade A joker, with everything he's said. Seriously guys, making fun of Bush's speeches is so 2003, lets jump on Hesse instead. This is the same guy who said that rootkits are OK, because the average user doesn't know what it is.... *blank stare*
Very sorry? Very SORRY?! If I infected millions of computers with a virus, I wouldn't be very sorry, I'd be in jail!! For anyone who thinks that is an unfair assumption, notice that the Sony rootkit has been found on computers in most major corporations (Fortune 500, the works) as well as DoD and foreign government systems.
Sorry doesn't cut it anymore, and these guy MUST pay. I don't care if First4Internet wrote it, Sony must take responsibility for this, just as a car company would have to if they didn't issue a recall for bad brakes they didn't make.
And this whole rant isn't even on DRM itself, merely Sony's raping of people's rights (colorful? yes. appropriate? definatly).
