Mark Russinovich's Sony DRM Full Blog

All detils of the Sony/BGM DRM root kit.

Some non-technical highlights:

The DRM software Sony has been shipping on many CDs since April is cloaked with rootkit technology:

• Sony denies that the rootkit poses a security or reliability threat despite the obvious risks of both
• Sony claims that users don’t care about rootkits because they don’t know what a rootkit is
• The installation provides no way to safely uninstall the software
• Without obtaining consent from the user Sony’s player informs Sony every time it plays a “protected” CD