alt Hacker NewsRemember that one time when music CDs from Sony MBG installed a rootkit on your PC that continuously sent whatever MP3s you had on your PC back to them?
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stephbook • yesterday at 6:31 PM
Remember when Amazon deleted books from customers' Kindles (eBook reader), and the book they decided to remotely burn was .. 1984 from Orwell.
SaucyWrong • yesterday at 5:04 PM
I was alive for that but had forgotten about it…wild.
stackghost • yesterday at 6:33 PM
Yep and they were fined a paltry 6 million dollars or so. For actively distributing and infecting users with malware. This on annual sales exceeding $3B.
That case sure put Mark Russinovich on everyone’s radars, at least.
Good times.
Remember that time when NSA director James Clapper reassured us they're not the baddies.
"Does the NSA collect any type of data at all on millions or hundreds of millions of Americans?"
"No, sir."