7 posts and columns on rootkit

Carrier IQ Speaks: Our Software Ignores Your Personal Info

in Mobile on December 1, 2011 at 4:35 pm PT

If Carrier IQ’s software isn’t meant to log keystrokes, then why is it watching keystrokes?
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Carrier IQ Improves My Wireless Service by Logging My Keystrokes? Please Explain.

in Mobile on December 1, 2011 at 9:45 am PT

Software installed on millions of cellphones could be logging every keystroke.
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FTC Gives Ed Felten Freedom to Tinker

in News on November 4, 2010 at 11:55 am PT

Looks like the Federal Trade Commission got its first choice of Chief Technologist, because it’s hard to think of anyone better to serve in that capacity than Princeton computer science professor Ed Felten, a guy whose CV makes everyone from Microsoft to Diebold shudder in embarrassment.

FTC to Sony: Hey, Record Label, Leave Those Kids Alone

in Media on December 10, 2008 at 9:49 pm PT

Sony’s music label will pay a $1 million fine as part of a settlement with the U.S. government in an online privacy case. Which makes it the second big label to get slapped for violating a 1998 law.

"Comes With Music," DRM & Sony BMG

in News on April 22, 2008 at 4:28 am PT

Sony BMG (SNE) has signed on to Nokia’s (NOK) new “Comes With Music” program and really, who better than the pioneer of the rootkit digital-rights management scheme to endorse Nokia’s DRM-hobbled prebundled music initiative? This morning, Sony BMG became the second record label to jump on board the Finnish phone giant’s Comes With Music offering, [...]

“Comes With Music,” DRM & Sony BMG

in News on April 22, 2008 at 4:28 am PT

Sony BMG (SNE) has signed on to Nokia’s (NOK) new “Comes With Music” program and really, who better than the pioneer of the rootkit digital-rights management scheme to endorse Nokia’s DRM-hobbled prebundled music initiative? This morning, Sony BMG became the second record label to jump on board the Finnish phone giant’s Comes With Music offering, [...]

If Stupidity Were Illegal, You Might Have a Valid Counterclaim …

in News on July 13, 2007 at 12:01 am PT

Still smarting over the flogging it suffered back in 2005 for encoding some of its music CDs with a harebrained rootkit copy-protection software, Sony BMG lashed out against the company that developed it last week, slapping it with a lawsuit. Sony accuses Amergence Group, formerly SunnComm International, of “negligence, unfair business practices and breaching the [...]