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November 19, 2005

AARGH! Uninstaller for Other Sony DRM Also Opens Huge Security Hole. The SunnComm software and its uninstaller is also very dangerous.

It's easy to assume that if there is a market for a kind of software, there will be engineers willing to provide it. This says nothing about the competence of those engineers. I doubt it's a coincidence that software designed to break your computer in one way ends up accidentally slaughtering your computer in others.