Sunday, November 27, 2005
Pre-history of the Sony rootkit
Cory Doctorow: An old email thread shows the early efforts of the authors of Sony's infamous rootkit. In 2003, Ceri Coburn (to whom first4internet.com is registered) appeared as a novice programmer in a technical mailing list, asking questions about how to cripple CD drives.
Link (Thanks, Quality!)Subject: CDAUDIO Filter Driver Dynamic Load
ThreadID: 42117
From: ntfsd member (xxxxxx@first4internet.co.uk)
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Date:Fri, 28 Mar 2003 10:06:30 -0000 (quoted)Hi,
Is there a way that I can get the CDAUDIO filter driver example in the DDK to load and unload dynamically? I have used the addfilter app in the DDK to install it but the driver does not load until the next reboot.
Thanks
Ceri
Previous installments of the Sony Rootkit Roundup: Part I, Part II, Part III
(Cool Sony CD image courtesy of Collapsibletank)
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