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Sony Provides MMO Hacking Tools Free On Audio CDs @ SecurityFocus

(PC: MMORPG) | Posted by Wildefire @ Thursday - November 03, 2005 - 19:57 - Top
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It was revealed this week that some of Sony's copy-protected CDs install 'rootkit' software that cloaks their own digital rights management code, making it impossible for the average computer user to either know the software's there or uninstall it. Sony has since released an uninstaller for this dastardly code, but it's too late. MMOG hackers have already found a way to use Sony's rootkit to hide their own hacking utilities from the anti-hacking tools employed by games such as World of Warcraft and Knight Online. All they have to do is pirate a copy of one of the known copy-protected CDs (they are hackers after all), install the DRM software, and make minor tweaks to their own utilities so they're protected by the rootkit. I wonder how SoE feels about this?
Want to cheat in your online game and not get caught? Just buy a Sony BMG copy protected CD.

World of Warcraft hackers have confirmed that the hiding capabilities of Sony BMG's content protection software can make tools made for cheating in the online world impossible to detect. The software--deemed a "rootkit" by many security experts--is shipped with tens of thousands of the record company's music titles.
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