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Sony rootkits – a timeline

Tuesday, November 15, 2005

Boingboing has posted a time-line of events surrounding the Sony rootkit-as-DRM debacle. If you’re still buying products from Sony, start asking yourself if it’s really worth it. It is unreal to me that an individual committing the same acts as Sony would be subject to criminal prosecution, but major corporations get by with hamfisted “apologies” [...]

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urss considered harmful

Sunday, October 2, 2005

urss is a Mozilla / Firefox extension that provides a side-scrolling ticker of your RSS feed(s). Sounds nifty, and it was exactly what I was looking for at the time I first installed it. However, after I tired of it (and discovered Sage) I looked for a way to uninstall. Oh boy. urss doesn’t have [...]

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