It's pointless if you already know what it is.

How often did you go to school and find it pointless? Very often.

Yeah twesterm. Mister SERIOUS. ALL THE TIME!

Some of us didn't know what a rootkit was and were too lazy to care. Then again, some of us already use Windows Vista which is just malware to begin with. So trying to brick a virus with a virus is pretty useless.

Hopefully Hotz' newly affordable legal team brings this up in the case, and Sony gets forced off of it. It's directly interfering with the device that you own and the use of the physical software that you own against your knowledge or will

It's funny though, since it's been there forever.  It's shocking just how much info sony collects.  Everything you run in your PS3, right down to your movie selections (so they know what porn your watching) what TV you use... when you use this shit.  I'd love to sift through that data... though ethically I don't think I could.  At least not based on what I learned in my science and marketing classes.

I think Sony just want something in the ruling books before IP laws protecting non-creative work like this become COMPLETELY untenable.

We've already got software in our Microwaves and Cars, hell... if you listen to that "games and everyday life" guy pretty soon our soda cans will come with it's own software!

On the bright side, Sony may be able to track all the sales of all consoles, and accurately, too.

Watch out VGC, Sony may kill you.

I'm kinda fascinated with that stuff too (especially for myself, that's why i loved it when the Nintendo Channel added a means for tracking total playtime across your most-played titles), but with my consent and for my own purposes, and i voluntarily give that data to the Nintendo Channel (which warns me as such)

Well, you technically do give Sony consent.  It's just very very vague, and you have to agree to do it to even use your console.  Though even then I coulda swore it said something like  "the minium required information."

Yeah, I really like Consumer Science in general though... you know what i'd LOVE to get my hands on.  The data from those little discount coupon cards.  The cool infor you could learn.  Do some products sell better on some days?  Does a sale on cookies lead to an increase in Milk.  Does moving some bannanas to the cereal Isle increase bannanna sales?

Those little coupon cards are like 70% of the consumer marketing companies used to do... for free... and better.

You should go get a Statistics degree like me :)

I honestly never really knew what a rootkit was though, so kinda interesting to have a general idea now :)