Really, they did know...

I have come to the conclusion that Sony had this planned for some time now. Maybe as far back as the 2004 Holiday Season. They were having trouble finding our surfing styles, because of so many machines being cleaned of the adware infections. They wanted a way of spying on us, that the programs that we depend on, could not clean. And so they went to work looking for answers.

Their tech department offered up the word "Rootkit" and all was well, again. Or so they thought.

This is the 2005, and this kind of stuff is no longer acceptable. Freeware programs use to come bundled with malware and we would accept it as a form of "payment" to the programmer, but we don't anymore. We have not for some time now. And we won't ever again. And either will any form of malware being used by companies that we are suppose to trust.