Once upon a time, I could locate albums in my music collection by the color of the spine. The cover art provided a kind of stylistic fingerprint as unique as the music itself; it was tangible. The process of hearing something new involved the consumption of the cover, jacket, and any enclosed materials in concert [...]
Arstechnia had a Nate Anderson story today about another theoretical rootkit in a piece of commercial software. While that’s not good news, there were an additional two paragraphs at the end of the story about the provisionally approved settlement of Sony/BMG’s class action lawsuit from their XCP rootkit fiasco. Anderson summarized the terms of the [...]
