Security Now! fans rejoice! Leo and Steve have gotten together early to publish the most recent Security Now! that covers the whole debaucle over Sony/BMG using rootkit technology to impliment DRM on the machines of people who have purchased DRM protected music from Sony recently. The story broke earlier this week, partly due to the excellent work of J Alex Halderman, who runs the Freedom To Tinker blog [ http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/?p=919 ]
and he goes on with the story in the following posts:
[ http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/?p=920 ]
[ http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/?p=921 ]
The issue is important for everyone, and if you want a good first step to protect yourself, disabling autorun on your home computer is definitely a good idea. But back to point: Leo and Steve get together early to discuss exactly what’s going on, and to try and boil it down for the everyday listener and provide some good tips to keep this kind of nonsense off of your computer and protect your personal rights and privacy. Links to tools and more information can be found in the episode notes. Snag it today!
Security Now Episode 12 // 2 November, 2005 – [ episode notes | download ]