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• "No comments" - baloney
  >>"I think this is slightly old news,"Gilliat-
  Smith said. "For the eight months that these CDs
  have been out, we haven't had any comments about
  malware (malicious software) at all."<<
  
  Let me translate this.
  
  "Since most people lack the skills of
  Russinovich, no one else so far has been able to
  track any of the system failures that we have
  induced back to us. You see, we spent an
  extraordinary amount of time covering our tracks
  by cloaking things that people would normally
  able to see in their systems.
  
  "As to the (probably thousands of) poor smucks
  whose CD disappeared due to our code, or who blue
  screened, or whatever, and who spend hours
  trying to figure out what was wrong, and then
  more hours rebuilding their systems - well - who
  cares. They didn't trace it back to us - it
  doesn't affect our bottom line."
  
  I really love his attitude: "well, we knew that
  we screwed you eight months ago - boy are you
  guys dummies that you only now have figured it
  out."
  
  Hopefully, a good case will be made against these
  clowns, and Sony will pay heavily though a class
  action suit, and in the marketplace. With a
  little luck, maybe someone will even do some jail
  time.

  November 2, 2005

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• Nonesense
  >>In fact, the user did agree to the license agreement during the install.<<
  
  Agreeing to the "installation of software" is not,
  by any reasonable stretch of the imagination, the
  same as agreeing to have the kernel of a
  secure operating system corrupted by malware
  with untold future effects. Mark Russinovich's
  time and expertise (which, for this kind of crap
  should be billed a few million dollars an hour)
  are only the tip of the iceberg as to a whole lot of people's time which has been/will be wasted
  trying to track the normal bugs of the day,
  because this malware takes the tack of creating
  an environment which tries to deceive the user
  about the nature of what is going on in his
  machine.

  November 2, 2005

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