[dickmc]

The Freedon to Tinker analysis supporting the article is here.

Also, here is the top part of the country list:

217296 'JAPAN'

130519 'UNITED STATES'

44421 'UNITED KINGDOM'

27838 'NETHERLANDS'

27527 'SPAIN'

12061 'KOREA'

10351 'PERU'

8857 'FRANCE'

8145 'AUSTRALIA'

7989 'SWITZERLAND'

7660 'CHINA'

5853 'NORWAY'

4988 'CANADA'

4703 'ITALY'

4613 'SWEDEN'

4197 'BRAZIL'

4097 'TURKEY'

3528 'GERMANY'

2769 'AUSTRIA'

2489 'TAIWAN'

2335 'CZECH REPUBLIC'

2075 'DENMARK'

1845 'GUATEMALA'

1427 'HONG KONG'

1368 'IRELAND'

1335 'NEW ZEALAND'

1270 'MALAYSIA'

1263 'LUXEMBOURG'

997 'INDIA'

867 'THAILAND'

864 'POLAND'

821 'RUSSIAN FEDERATION'

756 'GREECE'

748 'COLOMBIA'

723 'UKRAINE'

706 'FINLAND'

597 'ISRAEL'

508 'LITHUANIA'

491 'ARGENTINA'

457 'CHILE'

414 'SINGAPORE'

Dan Kaminsky, the fellow working this, is at the DoxPara Research site here and his detailed list is here. There are five nets infected in Iraq.

Dan's detailed U.S. and Europe photos showing the infestation were posted yesterday in FR here in case you missed them or want to look again.

In addition to the U.S., Italy is highlighted above in red . This is because Italy has some very tough laws that have criminal penalties.

Unlike in the U.S. when you weld on a pressure vessel in Italy, you sign your name on it as the welder. If the vessel blows up and injures someone due to something you did wrong, you go to jail! As another example of legal differences: when Ayrton Senna was killed at a Formula One race in Italy due to a potential steering column design problem, the Williams team owners would not go to Italy for fear they might be hauled off to jail.

While this Sony incident is obviously different, Italy has some pretty serious criminal law. Things that might be a civil penalty or wrist slap in the U.S. or U.K. can have real criminal penalties in Italy.

Apparently there is now a Sony investigation underway in Italy!

[sionnsar]

One of the reasons I've quit buying anything Sony.

[ShadowAce]

[tutstar]

ping

[fuquadukie]

Unlike in the U.S. when you weld on a pressure vessel in Italy, you sign your name on it as the welder.

Not true. In the case of pressure vessel welding (ASME) here in the US, the welder 'stamps' the weld at specified and/or pre-determined intervals along the entire weld. A welder must have appropriate training and qualifications and is assigned his/her own 'stamp'; extensive recordkeeping is required. There are so many more requirements related to pressure vessel welding that your eyes would gloss over. For a time, my Company did pressure vessel work (U & R); I shuttered the entire metal fabrication operations in April 2003. I can tell you that if anything goes wrong with any of the vessels manufactured by my Company, the sh*t will hit the fan. While jail may not be explicitely stipluated, one should not discount the potential ruthlessness of litigants in asserting negligence, even though all standards were followed.

[FReepaholic]

...Italy has some pretty serious criminal law...

I read yesterday that in Italy foreigners have to show a passport to use a computer in an Internet cafe.

[Cicero]

The Sophos rootkit detection and removal tool is at:

http://www.sophos.com/support/disinfection/rkprf.html

Use at your own risk, but it is recommended by several reliable sources. I certainly wouldn't use any Sony removal tools, given their record so far.

[dickmc]

Excellent time line with links on this whole mess is at boingboing here.

[dickmc]

Finally some details as to what the Sony DRM is actually doing.

Apparently according to Muzzy's site here the Sony DRM appears to have a large potential 'black' list that it scans for every two seconds as long as your computer is running.

Moreover, Sony's official uninstaller also leaves a plethora of stuff behind, some of which may be exploitable!