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Sony rootkit author’s newsgroup posting asking for free code

November 28, 2005 · 2 Comments

First4Internet ripped off code from at least two free/open source software projects for the malicious rootkit program they supplied to Sony.

Here’s an old mailing list/newsgroup message from a First4Internet programmer looking for a ‘code’ for cash arrangement due to his apparent laziness.

Here’s another message thread which shows the early efforts of the authors of Sony’s infamous rootkit. In 2003, Ceri Coburn (to whom first4internet.com is registered) appeared as a novice programmer in a technical mailing list, asking questions about how to cripple CD drives.

More “how do I break computers?” newsgroup postings from First4Internet programmers are available through Google Groups.

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