One More Thing John Thompson Said…

Thomas Ptacek | June 28th, 2006 | Filed Under: Industry Punditry, Uncategorized

Here’s Thompson on the Sony Rootkit debacle (from NetworkWorld):

So I think people need to step away from the fact that perhaps there was some piece of detective capability on the machine, to what was the intent and how did the company respond when it was made public. And I think Sony acted very responsibly, frankly.

“How did the company respond when it was made public”?

Doesn’t this seem a bit flat-footed from a company that grosses ~$1.5Bn/yr from software designed to eliminate things like the Sony rootkit?

I had a nastier thing to say here, but I don’t want Dave to get mad at me.