New Sony CD security risk found

Vikingod · Dec 7, 2005, 02:36 AM

Sony BMG Music Entertainment and the Electronic Frontier Foundation digital rights group jointly announced Tuesday that they had found, and fixed, a new computer security risk associated with some of the record label's CDs.

The danger is associated with copy-protection software included on some Sony discs created by a company called SunnComm Technologies. The vulnerability could allow malicious programmers to gain control of computers that have run the software, which is typically installed automatically when a disc is put in a computer's CD drive.

The issue affects a different set of CDs than the ones involved in the copy-protection gaffe that led Sony to recall 4.7 million CDs last month, and which has triggered several lawsuits against the record label.
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Tipstaff · Dec 7, 2005, 05:16 AM

The protection they are talking about is the one called "MediaMax", in this case version 5. This was the protection that Sony was using before XCP. It never really did anything except to stop the casual copiers. All you had to do was hold the Shift key down, or turn off Autorun in order to bypass the protection. It was also very, very easy to uninstall.

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Tipstaff HardwareHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Real capital of Canada: Torauna Posts: 6,658 Rep Power: 187 System Specs	The protection they are talking about is the one called "MediaMax", in this case version 5. This was the protection that Sony was using before XCP. It never really did anything except to stop the casual copiers. All you had to do was hold the Shift key down, or turn off Autorun in order to bypass the protection. It was also very, very easy to uninstall. __________________ Portal: The Flash Version _________________________________ Brain: So, you sacked the cocky khaki Kicky Sack sock plucker? Mr. Sackett: The second cocky khaki Kicky Sack sock plucker I've sacked since the sixth sitting sheet slitter got sick. Last edited by Tipstaff; Dec 7, 2005 at 05:26 AM.