Comments on: SunnComm DRM security flaw http://www.p2pnet.net/story/7027 p2pnet.net - reader powered Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:11:09 -0300 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/7027/comment-page-1#comment-24729 Reader's Write Sat, 19 Nov 2005 08:16:21 +0000 #comment-24729 I agree. This is not related to the Mac version, but to the Windows uninstaller. When some Mac experts disect MediaMax on the Mac, expect some more revelations of malware to surface. I agree. This is not related to the Mac version, but to the Windows uninstaller.

When some Mac experts disect MediaMax on the Mac, expect some more revelations of malware to surface.

]]> By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/7027/comment-page-1#comment-24696 Reader's Write Fri, 18 Nov 2005 23:33:42 +0000 #comment-24696 "In the continuing Big Music spyware saga, it seems the Mac version of SunnComm's DRM for Sony BMG also has a security gap and it's even worse than the Windows one." Are you sure? It looks to me as if Felten and Haldermann looked into the *Windows* version of Sunncomm's MediaMax DRM. I quote: MediaMax installs around a dozen files that consume more than 12 MB on the hard disk. Most are copied to the folder c:\Program Files\Common Files\SunnComm Shared\, shown below: http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/?p=925 That's a lettered drive and those are backslashes. We're not in *nix land here. So far as I know, NO-ONE has looked closely into what Mediamax does to a Mac OS X system. “In the continuing Big Music spyware saga, it seems the Mac version of SunnComm’s DRM for Sony BMG also has a security gap and it’s even worse than the Windows one.”

Are you sure? It looks to me as if Felten and Haldermann looked into the *Windows* version of Sunncomm’s MediaMax DRM. I quote:

MediaMax installs around a dozen files that consume more than 12 MB on the hard disk. Most are copied to the folder c:\Program Files\Common Files\SunnComm Shared\, shown below:

http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/?p=925

That’s a lettered drive and those are backslashes. We’re not in *nix land here.

So far as I know, NO-ONE has looked closely into what Mediamax does to a Mac OS X system.

]]> By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/7027/comment-page-1#comment-24689 Reader's Write Fri, 18 Nov 2005 22:19:59 +0000 #comment-24689 A spoof regarding SunnComm working on a DRM solurion with Macrovision? Now you really expect everyone to go out and download YOUR piece of software that will prevent any damage being done by the evil and malicious SunnComm software. Even as Halderman states: "the SunnComm flaw doesn't apply to CD software, "only to the uninstaller that SunnComm distributes separately for removing the CD software. So if you haven’t used the uninstaller, you’re not vulnerable to this flaw and you don’t need to do anything." SO WHAT???? A spoof regarding SunnComm working on a DRM solurion with Macrovision? Now you really expect everyone to go out and download YOUR piece of software that will prevent any damage being done by the evil and malicious SunnComm software.

Even as Halderman states: “the SunnComm flaw doesn’t apply to CD software, “only to the uninstaller that SunnComm distributes separately for removing the CD software. So if you haven’t used the uninstaller, you’re not vulnerable to this flaw and you don’t need to do anything.”

SO WHAT????

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