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Gears of War bug not SafeDisc DRM's first
Published 1/30/2009 by eric_lai@computerworld.com at Latest from Computerworld
The anti-piracy technology that locked out players of the popular Gears of War game on Thursday was also implicated in a 2007 bug that was allowing hackers to take control of Windows PCs.
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