What Sony’s doing ought to be illegal

You have got to be kidding. A brand name like Sony distributing rootkits on our PC’s through some of its CD’s since March 2005 and the government’s not doing anything about it? Here’s a Nov. 1 F-Secure Blog telling just how Sony BMG’s loading this technology onto its paying customers’ systems, and how those rootkits can be then hijacked and used by any other malware wanting to hide its existence from the computer owner and its security software. As I wrote in a recent Networkworld article, rootkit technology is already being bundled with other malware including spyware and viruses. Now Sony saves malware writers the step of loading the rootkit to hide their evil code. Hello, lawmakers? Anyone besides me thinking that this may be illegal?