"There is much pleasure in useless knowledge." — Bertrand Russell
Dan Kaminsky has been trying to figure out how many sites have been infected by the Sony DRM rootkit. He found that over half a million DNS servers have received queries for the “phone home” address that the Sony code uses to squeal on users. It’s a cool research project, and spells troubling times for Sony in the not-too-distant future.
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