Sony: It Just Keeps Coming

On top of everything else, Sony's DRM software has a privilege-escalation security flaw. Those few Windows users who don't run as administrator are screwed too. Yay!

Sony BMG Urges Security Fix for CDs
By ALEX VEIGA, AP Business Writer Tue Dec 6,11:29 PM ET

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051207/ap_on_hi_te/sony_copy_protection

LOS ANGELES - Sony BMG Music Entertainment said Tuesday some 5.7 million of its CDs were shipped with anti-piracy technology that requires a new software patch to plug a potential security breach in computers used to play the CDs.

The security vulnerability was discovered by online civil liberty group Electronic Frontier Foundation and brought to the attention of Sony BMG, which has been under fire in recent weeks over security issues with an unrelated CD copy-protection plan.

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"It's a privileged escalation attack," said Kurt Opsahl, an EFF staff attorney. "On Windows you can have users with different privileges, and because of security weakness in the permissions of a folder, it allows a low-ranked user to act as a high-ranked user."

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Drawing tonight at Lake Forest Park Commons in ON

spazzkat and I will be doing the "art night" thing at Lake Forest Park Town Centre's commons space at 7PM. If you don't know where the commons is, it's in the upper storey (the same floor as Third Place Books), over by the stage and the restaurants. If you want to come draw, then, um... come draw!

No RSVP needed, but if nobody else shows up by 8PM we'll probably leave.

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I have submitted my application to the University of Washington's graduate school.

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