In Support of Rootkits

Greg Hoglund, one of the guys who (literally) wrote the book on rootkits, makes the argument that it's OK to use rootkits in commercial software:

If you want my opinion, my opinion is this: Let Symantec, Kaspersky, F-Secure, and all the others use rootkit technology, it only makes their anti virus products more effective. Let anti-spyware companies like Sunbelt use rootkits against rootkits. Use fire against fire. I don't agree w/ people who say such approaches take away an administrators capability to administer a box. To solve the administrator problem, you only have to do one thing: Treat your rootkit features as a black box and uninstall them with the rest of your product. If an administrator doesn't want your product, then he can uninstall it. You aren't taking anything away.