American Green Inc (ERBB)

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Sting: It appears to me that the rootkit in and of itself was more of an "insult" to the consumer, but only had the potential to cause damages (in the form of 'harm') to that consumer, by a hacker dropping a like-code (aka virus) into that rootkit and being able to have full access to that computer and its files.

I agree, that if nothing beyond the installation of the rootkit occured, no foul....no harm, beyond the lack of permission for access.

I suppose damage could be proven if a consumer's computer got fried or had secure info removed from it, as the e-trail to the root kit and the supplanted virus could be ascertained easily enough by those technically-inclined to do so.

I gotta tell ya......I started surfing around for an article, anything, that would put some kind of positive spin on SunnComm, Sony, et al, but there were slim to no pickin's. The best I could come up with was that article that said Sony had created " a bottom" in DRM of what consumers would tolerate (although if that's the case, what the hell.....anything that works!)