Sony's response to the DRM scandal continues to be counter-productive at the PR level, and inept at the technical level. Have a look at this report from Freedom to Tinker:

Alex Halderman and I have confirmed that Sony’s Web-based XCP uninstallation utility exposes users to serious security risk. Under at least some circumstances, running Sony’s Web-based uninstaller opens a huge security hole on your computer. We have a working demonstration exploit.

We are working furiously to nail down the details and will report our results here as soon as we can.

I thought at first that they had replaced all the PR and marketing staff with lawful evil lawyers (D&D reference there :) ). It looks like they replaced their technical staff with zombies at the same time.