Homeland Security gives Sony the slapdown on DRM
Hopefully this will be my last post about the Sony DRM rootkit stuff. Sony has announced that they are stopping production of all CDs with the rootkit DRM software, at least temporarily. This decision could be related to the slapdown they received by the Department of Homeland Security. Stewart Baker, the DHS’s assistant secretary for policy said the following at an event on combating intellectual-property theft.
“I wanted to raise one point of caution as we go forward, because we are also responsible for maintaining the security of the information infrastructure of the United States and making sure peoples’ … Continue Reading