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http://www.pcdoctor-guide.com/wordpress [The PC Doctor » Here to help!] The CDs If you have bought and played one (or more) of the following SonyBMG music CDs in your PC then this information applies to you: Trey Anastasio, Shine (Columbia) Celine Dion, On ne Change Pas (Epic) Neil Diamond, 12 Songs (Columbia) Our Lady Peace, Healthy in Paranoid Times (Columbia) Chris Botti, To Love Again (Columbia) Van Zant, Get Right with the Man (Columbia) Switchfoot...

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http://www.pcdoctor-guide.com [Pcdoctor-guide.com] The PC Doctor » Blog Archive » The EFF on Sony-BMG XCP copy protection: If you have one of these CDs, and you have a Windows PC (Macs are totally immune, as usual), you may have caught the XCP bug.

Msnbc.msn.comhttp://www.msnbc.msn.com [Msnbc.msn.com] Fallout from Sony CD flap getting worse - Security - MSNBC.com: BOSTON - The fallout from a hidden copy-protection program that Sony BMG Music Entertainment put on some CDs is only getting worse. Sony’s suggested method for removing the program actually widens the security hole the original software created, researchers say.

Eff.orghttp://www.eff.org [Eff.org] EFF: DeepLinks: EFF has confirmed the presence of XCP on the following titles (each has a data session, easily read on a Macintosh, that includes a file called "VERSION.DAT" that announces what version of XCP it is using). If you have one of these CDs, and you have a Windows PC (Macs are totally immune, as usual), you may have caught the XCP bug.

http://musicalmaven.donyell.net [Musicalmaven.donyell.net] Musical Maven Blog: Several other Sony-BMG CDs are protected with a different copy-protection technology, sourced from SunnComm, including:

[Phoenixresurrection.blogspirit.com] Let's Blog About It: Misconfigurations and vulnerable configurations were also noted by the Measurement Factory that reported 75% of DNS servers allowing recursive name service for arbitrary queriers or unspecified machines. A DNS server would, thenceforth, forward all requests it cannot resolve  to the hieararchy of DNS servers until the request reaches a DNS server capable of resolving the URL to the corresponding IP address.

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