{"id":199140,"date":"2007-09-03T23:11:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-04T04:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/09\/03\/dont-buy-sony-ever\/"},"modified":"2007-09-03T23:11:00","modified_gmt":"2007-09-04T04:11:00","slug":"dont-buy-sony-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/09\/03\/dont-buy-sony-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t Buy Sony, EVER"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Once again, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2007\/08\/29\/sony_rootkit_controversy\/\">Sony is bundling rootkit type spyware on hardware that it sells<\/a>, this time on a USB drive.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s somewhat less malicious than Sony&#8217;s infamous CD spyware, the user has to install the software, and it appears to be intended to protect the fingerprint authentication on the drive, but it&#8217;s the same technique, and introduces similar vulnerabilities.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s stupid and shortsighted, and insecure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once again, Sony is bundling rootkit type spyware on hardware that it sells, this time on a USB drive. It&#8217;s somewhat less malicious than Sony&#8217;s infamous CD spyware, the user has to install the software, and it appears to be intended to protect the fingerprint authentication on the drive, but it&#8217;s the same technique, and &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1144],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consumer-electronics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199140"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}