CDs Considered Harmful

This article on boingboing.net explains how to find out if any of your music CDs are secretly installing spyware that makes your computer [Windows] more vunerable to computer crackers [aka "rootkit"].

Sony is in some deep guano. They were trying to prevent its paying customers from copying music in order to keep their profits and data safe, while at the same time endangering the customers' data. And spying on them. Great. Makes you want to buy CDs, right? And it's not just the Sony brand. See the link above.

You can read the timeline of doom here for a quick overview. This is probably going to be a cautionary tale in computer, law, and business classrooms from now on.