Sony install root kit

[armb]

Possibly the most extreme example yet of DRM being actively evil, not merely a pain.
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2005/11/sony_secretly_i_1.html
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/10/31/2016223&tid=172&tid=158

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/11/01/sony_rootkit_drm/

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[armb.livejournal.com]

And they've issued a patch which doesn't actually remove it: http://www.boingboing.net/2005/11/03/sony_releases_deroot.html