See Part I, Part III, Part IV, Part V and Part VI of this post for more.

It's been three days since the first roundup post on Sony's rootkit DRM and lots of new stuff has come to light since. — Read the rest

Princeton's Ed Felten and Alex Halderman have published new research into a grave security vulnerability opened up if you run the "uninstaller" that Sony supplies to rid your PC of its malicious rootkit software, which it installs when you insert an audio CD into your PC, as a means of restricting your use of the music on the CD. — Read the rest

We've written here that the "uninstaller" that Sony provides for getting rid of the malicious trojan horse that is installed on your computer when you play one of their music CDs introduces some pretty big security holes into your PC.

But it looks like it might be worse than we suspected. — Read the rest

See Part II, Part III, Part IV, Part V and Part VI of this post for more.

Since Hallowe'en, we've been posting the details about he revelations relating to Sony's DRM systems, which show jaw-dropping contempt for their customers, for copyright law, for fair trading and for the public interest. — Read the rest

On the Freedom to Tinker blog, DRM researcher par excellence J. Alex Halderman dissects a second variety of malicious software that purchasers of Sony music CDs can be infected with. Sony not only uses the now-infamous First4Internet rootkit, but also uses a second piece of malicious software from Suncomm, the less-well-known but still-dangerous MediaMax. — Read the rest

Ed Felten and Alex Halderman have created the world's smallest functional P2P filesharing program, written in fifteen lines of code.

TinyP2P is a functional peer-to-peer file sharing application, written in fifteen lines of code, in the Python programming language. I wrote TinyP2P to illustrate the difficulty of regulating peer-to-peer applications.