{"id":72,"date":"2005-11-15T12:03:13","date_gmt":"2005-11-15T16:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/clay.blogdns.net\/?p=72"},"modified":"2005-11-15T12:03:45","modified_gmt":"2005-11-15T16:03:45","slug":"no-honour-among-theives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/2005\/11\/15\/no-honour-among-theives\/","title":{"rendered":"No honour among theives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was told once that Sony walked away from a deal with Microsoft because they percieved the company to be without honour.  Perhaps it&#8217;s time for Sony to take a look in the mirror.<\/p>\n<p>The blogosphere is teeming with lists of <a href=\"http:\/\/mbjohnson.blogspot.com\/2005\/11\/dont-buy-this-music.html\">music not to buy<\/a> inspired by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eff.org\/deeplinks\/archives\/004144.php\">EFF&#8217;s article<\/a> on Sony&#8217;s DRM.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sysinternals.com\/AboutUs.html\">Mark Russinovich<\/a> of SysInternals has posted a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sysinternals.com\/blog\/2005\/11\/sonys-rootkit-first-4-internet.html\">rebuttal<\/a> of his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sysinternals.com\/blog\/2005\/11\/more-on-sony-dangerous-decloaking.html\">earlier article<\/a> by First 4 Internet, the company behind Sony&#8217;s new DRM technology.  The <a href=\"http:\/\/dev.upian.com\/hotlinks\/?q=sony+drm\">buzz in the blogosphere<\/a> on this topic helped to catch the attention of the mainstream media.  In the last few days the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/technology\/4427606.stm\">discovery of several viruses<\/a> that take advantage of the Sony rootkit, have raised awareness even further and caused antivirus firms to <a href=\"http:\/\/securityresponse.symantec.com\/avcenter\/venc\/data\/securityrisk.aries.html\">officially classify<\/a> the Sony software as a rootkit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was told once that Sony walked away from a deal with Microsoft because they percieved the company to be without honour. Perhaps it&#8217;s time for Sony to take a look in the mirror. The blogosphere is teeming with lists &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/2005\/11\/15\/no-honour-among-theives\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}