Sony at it again

When will these morons over at Sony ever learn? Besides the fact that they are always putting down the community that actually makes there only portable gaming system a seller by always trying to shut down homebrew applications they are back at it again with another rootkit fiasco.

You might remember they were caught with there pants around their ankles a few years back when they were installing rootkit like software on peoples computers who inserted CD’s into their computers there were from the Sony-BMG label. Now a line of flash drives that Sony sells has been discovered to install rootkit-like functionality that hides folders on people’s computers.

You’d think that after the mess they hand on their hands with the CD rootkit debacle someone at Sony would write a memo to the rest of the organization explicitly stopping this type of development, but no, instead they do it again.

This can lead to a serious security issue for computer users, these hidden folders are perfect for malware writers to use as hiding places for their malware. I’m left speechless.

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