Fushigi said:
El Reg said:Much of the cricitism of Sony is that it failed to act quickly enough when the problem became clear. This is likely to get worse with today's news that Finnish security firm F-Secure warned Sony about problems with its software on 4th October. This was followed by a more detailed report on 17 October.
A few days later, 20 October, a conference call was held between First4Internet, which wrote the rootkit for Sony, F-Secure and Sony. F-Secure claims that Sony decided at that point to keep things quiet. At the end of October the vulnerability was found, and published, by software engineer Mark Russinovich.
Tannin said:The beat goes on.
El Reg said:Much of the cricitism of Sony is that it failed to act quickly enough when the problem became clear. This is likely to get worse with today's news that Finnish security firm F-Secure warned Sony about problems with its software on 4th October. This was followed by a more detailed report on 17 October.
A few days later, 20 October, a conference call was held between First4Internet, which wrote the rootkit for Sony, F-Secure and Sony. F-Secure claims that Sony decided at that point to keep things quiet. At the end of October the vulnerability was found, and published, by software engineer Mark Russinovich.
(My emphasis.)
Full story: Sony's DRM woes worsen
LiamC said:I thought this was drummed into children. Admit your mistake, rectify it if possible, move on. To hide it is to be deceitful or criminal.
Santilli said:Try marrying a Japanese girl. You will get an entirely different picture from the above.
Or, better yet, watch a Japanese soap opera. The complexity of deceit requires a computer just to figure out the lies, and keep them in order, or straight.
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