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Sony gets silly with rootkits
We finally found somebody at Sony who is willing to talk about its Microvault USB sticks, but we didn't get much wiser.
The product essentially tanked and was discontinued just before F-Secure found that it formed a security risk because of "modest sales". Sony is still investigating the security problems (the device compromises Windows security, offering malware a place to hid from anti virus software), and pending the investigation won't decide if will do a recall.
A recall would still be useful to the dozen of consumers who required
fingerprint authentication to store their data and were willing to
shell out $62.99 for a 128MB model $99 or for the 256MB one.
Or we could help evolution a bit, weeding out people who fail to understand that free encryption software and a 1GB USB Flash drive that costs a mere $15 will yield the same result.
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