Remember that one time when music CDs from Sony MBG installed a rootkit on your PC that continuously sent whatever MP3s you had on your PC back to them?

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stephbook 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Remember when Amazon deleted books from customers' Kindles (eBook reader), and the book they decided to remotely burn was .. 1984 from Orwell.

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SaucyWrong 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I was alive for that but had forgotten about it…wild.

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stackghost 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Yep and they were fined a paltry 6 million dollars or so. For actively distributing and infecting users with malware. This on annual sales exceeding $3B.

That case sure put Mark Russinovich on everyone’s radars, at least.

Good times.

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oceansky 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

First time hearing of this

	▲	Klathmon 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_rootk... As the saying goes, this is what radicalized me. If any one of us did anything close to this we would be treated like Aaron Swartz and given a 35+ year prison sentence. But in the Sony case the DOJ didn't even threaten criminal charges.

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7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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