A couple of years ago, Sony BMG got caught shipping music CDs with "rootkits" on them, which installed software onto PCs when the buyer put the CD in to play it. A rootkit is software which allows a hacker to remotely take over a system.
Sony is AGAIN shipping products with rootkits installed. This time it's USB drives. Here's the story at Computer World, an IT industry journal.
It is not specified in the article what systems are vulnerable. Windows PCs certainly, Macs unlikely but possible based on the limited information that's been publicly released.
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. I regard buying Sony technology products as too risky.
EDIT 9/24/08: I had a brainfart and misread the date on the article to which I linked. It's from August 2007, not last month as I originally thought. That said, Sony still won't be getting any of my business.
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nice blog after misreading
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