Sony incident leads government to consider rootkit ban

[Guest]

Most electronics consumers had never heard of rootkits before last year's Sony BMG debacle.

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[aevm]

It's about time they passed a law like that. The problem is, ban them all, no exceptions? Who decides which exceptions are acceptable? The same people who passed the DMCA? They'd allow Sony and disallow McAfee and Symantec.

 

[aevm]

LOL, I just noticed the article is almost 3 years old.