How the Malicious Software on Sony CDs Works
Security researchers at Princeton are making great strides in picking apart the systems used by copy-restriction companies to corrupt the CDs sold by music labels like Sony-BMG. Princeton's Alex Halderman has published preliminary results of his and Ed Felten's work on reverse-engineering the Digital Rights Management systems that were the subject of so much controversy when Sony was caught infecting its customers' computers with them: MediaMax from Suncomm and XCP from First4Internet.Much more here.
Halderman's paper shows that these systems contain numerous implementation mistakes that would make it simple to circumvent them, once their presence was known.
posted by Fergie @ 1/26/2006 11:48:00 AM
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