To: Amerigomag
On the other hand, DOD computers should be for official use only and people introducing this software by unofficial use should be reprimanded for it.
3 posted on
11/15/2005 4:11:07 PM PST by
SoDak
(Yes, I'm a SysAdmin)
To: SoDak
5 posted on
11/15/2005 4:12:01 PM PST by
MikefromOhio
(We don't give a damn for the WHOLE state of Michigan.....)
To: SoDak
Playing a cd in your computer is hardley an attempt to install software, that was the big problem with this type of copy protection technology, it didn't let you know what it was doing. you thought you were playing some music while it did the dirty work without you knowing.
10 posted on
11/15/2005 4:16:28 PM PST by
tricky_k_1972
(Putting on Tinfoil hat and heading for the bomb shelter.)
To: SoDak
On the other hand, DOD computers should be for official use only and people introducing this software by unofficial use should be reprimanded for it.Absolutely correct.
With regards to Sony, this was a damaging marketing concept and implementation. Sony is not customer focused here.
12 posted on
11/15/2005 4:19:56 PM PST by
afnamvet
To: SoDak
On the other hand, DOD computers should be for official use only and people introducing this software by unofficial use should be reprimanded for it. A normal user (or even a fairly knowledgeable user) would not expect the normal operation of playing a music CD to install software. It looks like Sony's rootkit cracked network security.
19 posted on
11/15/2005 4:31:50 PM PST by
steve-b
(A desire not to butt into other people's business is eighty percent of all human wisdom)
To: SoDak
On the other hand, DOD computers should be for official use only and people introducing this software by unofficial use should be reprimanded for it.
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Yes, it's a government computer, but I'm working at it and I want to hear some music. I didn't intend to load any software on the computer, how could listening to a legal compact disk compromise the computer?
Well, now of course we know how, but was this foreseeable before this last week? That the Sony Corp. employs morons and they will compromise my computer?
Since I don't work for the government someone who does will have to help me out. What constitutes unofficial use? If I work for the government, and at the end of the day I go to weather.com to find out what the weather is for the drive home, is that unofficial use and potentially punishable?
To: SoDak
"On the other hand, DOD computers should be for official use only and people introducing this software by unofficial use should be reprimanded for it."
Playing commercial music CDs may not be banned.
34 posted on
11/15/2005 6:18:47 PM PST by
gondramB
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