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    Sony BMG rootkit still rife

    Techies have been outraged by it, it's even made it onto more prominent news broadcasts, but how many PCs still have the rootkit installed? The answer is a lot, and an number of them are within government and military networks.
    Building on previous research that suggested some 570,000 networks had computers affected by the software, infrastructure security expert Dan Kaminsky used a different address used by the copy protection software to estimate that, a month later, 350,000 networks--many belonging to the military and government--contain computers affected by the software.

    "It is unquestionable that Sony's code has gotten into military and government networks, and not necessarily just U.S. military and government networks," Kaminsky said in an interview after his presentation at ShmooCon. The researcher would not say how many networks belonged to government or military top-level domains.
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    Okay, now granted I've not been into any US Millitary installations and audited their systems but.... to install a rootkit one has to be administrator group memeber. People who are admins tend to own music players, or have a music box, which has nothing but compressed music files on it.

    Admins tend not to install software to play a CD on their linked computer systems, even the stupid ones.

    Maybe he means on computers that use the whole arpa net thing, that after all been a military project.
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