Two things

[trinityvixen]

If you've bought a Sony-BMG cd of late, you might be infected with their copyright-protection software. I found a list of CDs known to have this software on them, and there is an article about it on today's Circuits section of The New York Times. Sony-BMG says the program is not malicious, but they've gone through the trouble of making it invisible to your computer and your anti-virus program. Backdoor, folks, backdoor, and it's already been abused: the first trojan to take advantage of the 'rootkit' program from the cd. If you've bought Sony-BMG CDs, especially those listed, I recommend you go to their website and use their program to uninstall this malware. Oh, they're not calling it malware, but you better believe it is.

Second, I had a dream that I was sleeping in a bunkbed that had a curtain pulled over the top bunk and I pulled it aside to see my brother, Darryl, fussing over what looked like a gray-and-green wetsuit (the zippers were the kind of heavy-duty, huge-toothed ones you find on wetsuits). I was about to tell him not to be so upset about it as it would make him most resemble Space-Nerd Wil Wheaton (Wesley Crusher, to you ST: TNG fans), when he blurted out that his Halloween costume was ruined. I asked what he was supposed to be, and when he told me, I was glad I hadn't said "Space-Nerd" about his costume.

Comments

[hslayer.livejournal.com]

I'm glad the mainstream press has finally picked up the Sony-BMG story. (Tom's has been reporting it unfolding for a week or so.)
What's more, there's now been a lawsuit filed over it.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

I saw this, too. Excellent news. Since you've been aware of the issue for longer, do you happen to have a list of the CDs that were affected? I only found the one I linked to. Even though I haven't bought more than a couple of CDs in the past year, I'd like to know if I have a problem (and I won't know which CDs are Sony's because I don't know from the labels).

Also, hey, $75,000 a person if I can sign up on the class action lawsuit! Minus lawyering fees and labor on my behalf, I might see ten whole dollars out of that if I've got the bum CDs.

[hslayer.livejournal.com]

I don't believe there is a definitive list yet, although I'm sure that the lawsuit could bring one out of Sony themselves.

[ivy03.livejournal.com]

I'm afraid to ask - what was the costume supposed to be?

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

...Space-Nerd Wil Wheaton, of course. I was glad I hadn't told him that because that was in fact his costume. Why it vaguely resembled an "Aquatic Assault Wesley Crusher" uniform, I can't say.

[umeyard.livejournal.com]

*just falls out of chair laughing*



you really left me no other option you know that right?