In comp.security.misc Robert M. Riches Jr. <spamtrap42@verizon.net> wrote:
> On 2007-07-26, Colin B. <cbigam@somewhereelse.nucleus.com> wrote:
>> <snip>
>>
>> Look at it another way: Are there any major hardware/software product
>> companies that have been shown to be illicitly collaborating with the various
>> three (or four) letter agencies? If not, then why would Sun be the first?
>
> Does the Sony rootkit not count, maybe because the RIAA is
> not exactly a government agency?

Good point. I'd forgotten about them. I generally dismiss Sony as a company
too low to deal with anyways, so it slipped off my my radar.

I guess they're still a major company, if not respectable.
Colin