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[HongPong.com] Ants eat eyeball; Jon Lyons still the Pimp of Anime; Sony Rootkits mess up thousands of PCs: Kaminsky asked over 3 million DNS servers across the net whether or not they knew the addresses associated with the Sony rootkit -- connected.sonymusic.com, updates.xcp-aurora.com, and license.suncom2.com. He uses a "non-recursive DNS query" which allows him to just peek into the cache of that server, and find out if anyone else has asked that particular machine for those addresses recently.
[Lies and Exaggerations] Sony’s Web-Based Uninstaller Opens a Big Security Hole: Using statistical sampling methods and a secret feature of XCP that notifies Sony when its CDs are placed in a computer, Kaminsky was able to trace evidence of infections in a sample that points to the probable existence of at least one compromised machine in roughly 568,200 networks worldwide. This does not reflect a tally of actual infections, however, and the real number could be much higher.
[Blackfriarsinc.com] The Blackfriars Blog: Now we here at Blackfriars have access to some of the most advanced technology on the planet (in this case, a calendar and a calculator), and have used that access to calculate that since there are only 32 shopping days between the launch date of November 22 and Christmas, we shouldn't really expect to see all those units get made and sold by Christmas, especially given Microsoft's "Sold Out" marketing strategy. And if Microsoft expected most of those units to be sold in the holiday season, I would be willing to bet that Lee would have said so.
[Balloon-juice.com] Balloon Juice: Mark Russinovitch’s blog broke this story open. Go here if you want the technical skiny ... 12 Responses to “Sony’s Disastrous Stab At Copyright Protection” ...
[Pcanswer.com] News: Wired News: Sony Numbers Add Up to Trouble: "More than half a million networks, including military and government sites, were likely infected by copy restriction software distributed by Sony on a handful of its CDs, according to a statistical analysis of domain servers conducted by a well-respected security researcher and confirmed by independent experts on Tuesday. Sony BMG has been on the run for almost two weeks with the public relations debacle of its XCP copy restriction software, which has installed an exploit-vulnerable rootkit with at least 20 popular music titles on PCs all over the world."
[Lead21.typepad.com] Lead21 Blog: Justice Kennedy, in writing for the majority, said the U.S. must face the "stark reality that the [it] is the only country in the world that continues to give official sanction to the juvenile death penalty.'' While this is not true, I won't rush to list the despotic countries with whom we share the capital punishment for minors distinction.
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