Infection Facts

• Twenty popular music titles contain the rootkit.
• 568,200, one in six, DNS servers know about the Sony addresses.
• 165 countries are reporting back to Sony.
• National security and civil infrastructure networks are among those reporting back.

The more I read about this the more disgusted I become, not just with the sheer arrogance of Sony and First 4 Internet but with the laxity that Microsoft and computer users have approached security. Disgust with Microsoft for building and selling an easily compromised product and disgust with the average user for not taking the time to think about taking the steps to secure his or her computer. That trojan crawling into your PC doesn’t just affect you, it impacts the computing environment for everyone on the network ( read: Internet) both economically and performance wise.

In summary:

• Sony and First 4 Internet, you can both burn in hell.
• Microsoft, this is the reason I dropped your janky OS and tell everyone who asks that they should buy a Mac or use Linux.
• Average Joe, get your head out of your ass. You put locks on your doors, alarms on your cars, take cold medicine when you have the sniffles, tell me, how is this any different?

via Boing Boing, Digg and Wired