Decius wrote:

This component is not malicious and does not compromise security.

A compenent that enables people to hide files from me on my computer compromises security. Who do they think they're kidding!?

They're probably fooling plenty of people who don't know anything about computers. Not that it'll matter. The press has been, and will continue to be, massively negative on this, so the public will get the idea that it's bad regardless of what Sony says. They're already boned in other words.

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