TIL of the Sony rootkit scandal: In 2005, Sony shipped 22,000,000 CDs which, when inserted into a Windows computer, installed unn-removable and highly invasive malware. The software hid from the user, prevented all CDs from being copied, and sent listening history to Sony.

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    • Mark Russinovich was the guy who found it and got famous in the tech world at that time. Anyone from back then who worked with windows was familiar with his freeware site sysinternals.com. - this was a set of tools that were pretty much compulsory use for anyone who needed to troubleshoot gnarly problems with windows platforms. It was his tool rootkitrevealer that exposed the Sony criminal behaviour. Good guy. Pillar of the wintel tech community. Microsoft approached him with a job offer not long after the Sony scandal went public.

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