From Geekable.com: The kext generation

Macintouch reported yesterday, and others have re-reported, that some Sony music CDs have Mac-specific DRM. If this is true, then I have a couple of thoughts:

I hope the Mac programmer responsible enjoys his/her blood money.

Does the Mac programmer responsible realize that they are a retard? The DRM is distributed as a kernel extension. Kernel extensions give you unlimited power over the operating system (and thus require an administrator password to install), so why doesn’t the DRM hide its own presence like the PC version does?

(I suppose I’m the only one who remembers the kerfluffle when Aladdin/Allume distributed a new version of StuffIt that used a kernel extension to achieve certain Finder functionality. This was complete overkill, and later the developers switched to using mach_inject/mach_override.)

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