Sony rookit fiasco may lead to regulation
The US Department of Homeland Security has that the use of rootkit’s with commercial software will have to stop or else it will be regulated by the government. He spoke in particular about the Sony rootkit debacle which shows the extent to which the fiasco has had on consumers and worldwide attention.
“We need to think about how that situation could have been avoided in the first place,” said Jonathan Frenkel, director of law enforcement policy with the DHS’s Border and Transportation Security Directorate, who was speaking at the RSA Conference 2006 in San Jose, California.
The DHS has called before for software vendors to be careful with the way their software may use stealth technology for protection purposes. The Sony BMG episode hit thousands of customers who bought music cd’s infected with the Sony rootkit. The rootkit was then exploited itself by hackers who used it’s capabilities to hide it’s own malware.
It seems that again it will boil down to a definition of rootkit’s, what’s acceptable and what’s not, when it comes to software. Only then can regulation or legislation be useful.
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