What is wrong with these people?

[Paul Schmehl]

<http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/#00000723>

Here's an interesting one. Peripherals manufacturer I-O Data has shipped a
series of nice-looking portable hard drives in the 40GB to 120GB range -
carrying the Backdoor.Win32.Tompai trojan on them.

You would think Sony's mistake would wake manufacturers up.

Paul Schmehl (pauls@utdallas.edu)
Adjunct Information Security Officer
University of Texas at Dallas
AVIEN Founding Member
http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/

[Steve Shockley]

Paul Schmehl wrote:
> <http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/#00000723>
>
> Here's an interesting one. Peripherals manufacturer I-O Data has shipped
> a series of nice-looking portable hard drives in the 40GB to 120GB range
> - carrying the Backdoor.Win32.Tompai trojan on them.
>
> You would think Sony's mistake would wake manufacturers up.

I: http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/13.07.html#subj2

Doubt: http://www.dgl.com/dglinfo/1996/dg961023.html

It: http://www.windowsitpro.com/Articles/Print.cfm?ArticleID=25672

Sony's release was intentional; at least the others are (most likely)
mistakes.