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		fragmede 62 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Free software scares normal people disassembler and decompilers exist.

goodpoint 62 days ago [–]

This statement is ridiculous.

fragmede 62 days ago | [–]

A music CD installing a stealthed persistent kernel-level rootkit on your Windows PC would also be ridiculous, yet that's exactly what Sony BMG's rootkit in 2005 did. And guess how it was found?

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