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> The Sony "rootkit" wasn't actually a rootkit. It used a similar technique to rootkits to 'hide' itself from the user/other software, after the user had knowingly installed it.

ho hum, that sounds like a rootkit definition to me. or what's your beloved corporation's definition of this?

> I have no idea about the AT&T 'forward all calls to the NSA', but I'd expect that would be logistically impossible.

oh please, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A




OK, so your belief is that any program, that 'hides' itself on a computer, is a rootkit?

Does the 'root' not give you a clue as to the primary requirement of a rootkit?

May as well end here I think.


you make me wonder what kind of security research and corporate apologism genius am I dealing with here?

because the thing was defined as rootkit by original security researcher, EFF, court AND even Sony itself.

May as well end here I think.


Thanks. You reminded me why I need to block HN access. It becomes poisonous quickly.


yet you won't quit.

hypocrisy at it's best.




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