[David M]

I am hoping this Sony incident leads to legislation which provides for stiff penalties against any company or individual which places malware on our computers without the express permission of the user. The legislation would need to define malware first. EULA's could not be used to sneak this malware onto peoples computers either unless the user wants it there. The new law would need to require that EULA's fully disclose what the new law defines as malware. It would need to be opt in...not opt out for it to work

Hopefully this legislation is written in an compassing and not piecemeal way, otherwise it will not be very effective. If the law ever comes up for debate, lobbyists from the software companies that inject malware into our computers will have lobbyists swarming all over the politicians to reject the legislation...major software companies like Microsoft, Apple, Symantec, Sony, etc and others who have software installed or would like to install in our computers.

I have my doubts that it would ever happen. Politicians tend to listen first to lobbyists, and secondly to the People as a whole.

Unfortunatly any legislation will probably only apply to root kits and not all the other malware that exists. I know it sounds cynical, but that is also the reality of the situation.