{"id":1920,"date":"2005-11-09T06:15:51","date_gmt":"2005-11-09T06:15:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=1920"},"modified":"2005-11-09T06:15:51","modified_gmt":"2005-11-09T06:15:51","slug":"more_on_sonys_d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=1920","title":{"rendered":"More on Sony&#8217;s DRM Phoning Home from Your Computer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/us.gizmodo.com\/gadgets\/portable-media\/sony-drm-phones-mother-ship-hates-you-135849.php\">Gizmodo<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>First point: Sysinternals discovered that the DRM unisntaller requires you to put in all your specs and then gives you a &#8220;unique ID&#8221; to download the uninstaller. Then the uninstaller doesn&#8217;t run unless you shut down the DRM and you can&#8217;t shut down the DRM until you run the uninstaller. Ay! Lucy!<\/p>\n<p>Second point: In an NPR interview:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Thomas Hesse, President of Sony&#8217;s Global Digital Business, literally says: &#8220;Most people, I think, don&#8217;t even know what a rootkit is, so why should they care about it?&#8221;<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So malicious intent and active contempt. Way to keep the faith.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gizmodo: First point: Sysinternals discovered that the DRM unisntaller requires you to put in all your specs and then gives you a &#8220;unique ID&#8221; to download the uninstaller. Then the uninstaller doesn&#8217;t run unless you shut down the DRM and you can&#8217;t shut down the DRM until you run the uninstaller. Ay! Lucy! Second point: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1920"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1920\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}