News Sony admits to Microvault rootkit problem

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2007/09/04/sony_admits_to_microvault_rootkit_problem/1

Sony has come out and confirmed the recent security debacle over the Microvault USB thumb drives.

 

Sony anymore is like a weird comedy of errors. Almost amusing to see them blunder and shoot themselves in the foot like this.

 

Its not like M$ hasn't screwed up a few things over the past year.

 

Both Microsoft and Sony have been messing up a lot lately, from Red ring of Death, cooling problems and DVD-scratching at Microsoft, till pricing of the PS3, 2 rootkit-problems and a few other errors at Sony's corner.

It really is too bad, because in case of the consoles, they both have something good about them (although I favor the PS3 over the 360, but that's a personal perference). I hope both companies sort out their problems really quick, because it isn't making them look better.

 

i agree

 

All big companies will make certain amount of mistakes. But that is not an excuse for doing the same thing twice.

 

The problem is that big companies are under a lot of pressure to release products.
Unfortunately due to target pricing and release dates, companies start to take shortcuts.

This is when things start to go wrong!