that's my stapler » considered harmful http://www.thatsmystapler.org Excuse me, I believe you have my stapler. Thu, 03 Jun 2010 18:34:07 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Sony rootkits – a timeline http://www.thatsmystapler.org/2005/11/15/sony-rootkits-a-timeline/ http://www.thatsmystapler.org/2005/11/15/sony-rootkits-a-timeline/#comments Wed, 16 Nov 2005 00:55:44 +0000 Shade http://www.thatsmystapler.org/?p=19 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” and promises to not do it again.

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urss doesn’t have an “uninstall feature,” that being listed as something that’s in development. That’s cool, because Firefox has an extension manager; no problem, right? Wrong. urss installs itself in ~/.mozilla/firefox/[profile name]/chrome/urss where it has no need to be. After thoroughly munging my existing profile trying to be rid of this thing and get Firefox to start properly, I finally started over with a new profile.

All this is well and good, it’s a version 0.x product and all. Except that there are no bugs filed against it. Hm. I went to try and file a bug. Interesting, there’s no bug tracker for this obviously broken extension! Stay away from urss unless you’re interested in testing and fixing it yourself. You have been warned.

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