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  Monday, 21 November 2005

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BBC NEWS | Technology | Sony's long-term rootkit CD woes
At about the same time things went from bad to worse. It was soon discovered that Sony's patch created its own security risk - potentially leaving personal computers even more vulnerable than with the initial rootkit - and was pulled from its website.

Sony BMG has released the full list of XCP CDs The company also recalled millions of CDs, losing tens of millions in revenue and effectively acknowledging that the CD was a hazardous product.

The recall was even bigger than anticipated as Sony disclosed that there were at least 52 affected CDs. Moreover, researchers estimated that the damaging program had infected at least 500,000 computers in 165 countries.

Finally, just when it appeared that Sony had hit bottom, analysis of the rootkit revealed that it included open source software code contrary to the applicable licence.

I love this last bit.

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Microsoft has unveiled a new proposal called SSE, which stands for Simple Sharing Extensions for RSS and OPML.

Here's Ray Ozzie's introduction and FAQ.

It was my privilege to be in the loop while it was being developed. This is my introduction to the new technology, my view of its significance.

Coolio. Congrats Dave.