Anti-piracy vigilantes track file sharers

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Anti-piracy vigilantes track file sharers
Kevin Poulsen, SecurityFocus 2004-03-18

A pair of coders nurturing a deep antipathy for software pirates set off a controversy Thursday when they went public with a months-old experiment to trick file sharers into running a Trojan horse program that chastises users and reports back to a central server.

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Anti-piracy vigilantes track file sharers 2004-03-19
Anonymous (3 replies)

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Anonymous

Anti-piracy vigilantes track file sharers 2004-03-20
Anonymous

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Anonymous

Anti-piracy vigilantes track file sharers 2004-03-19
Fatman (1 replies)

Anti-piracy vigilantes track file sharers 2004-03-19
Penguinisto

Anti-piracy vigilantes track file sharers 2006-08-23
Buddha in Cayman

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Th3Pik3

Anti-piracy vigilantes track file sharers 2004-03-19
Anonymous

Good for them 2004-03-19
nosebreaker.com (1 replies)

I don't feel bad for the people who run this and get the popup message, just be thankful that is all it does! Unfortunatly someone else will probably edit it so that it does cause damage, to add to the confusion. Considering the amount of viruses and trojans out there on P2P networks, I don't see why people are making a big stink over this. I personally don't find this unethical, but it probably will be found illegal in some way.

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Good for them? - Questionable Ethics 2004-03-20
Anonymous (4 replies)

Good for them? - Questionable Ethics 2004-03-20
Anonymous (4 replies)

Good for them? - Questionable Ethics 2004-03-21
Anonymous

Good for them? - Questionable Ethics 2004-03-24
Sambo

Good for them? - Questionable Ethics 2004-03-25
Anonymous

Good for them? - Questionable Ethics 2004-03-26
Anonymous

Good for them? - Questionable Ethics 2004-03-20
Anonymous (1 replies)

Good for them? - Questionable Ethics 2004-03-26
Anonymous

Questionable Ethics? it's everywhere 2004-03-20
Anonymous (1 replies)

Questionable Ethics? it's everywhere 2004-03-21
Anonymous (1 replies)

Questionable Ethics? it's everywhere 2004-03-25
Anonymous

Good for them? - Questionable Ethics 2004-03-25
Anonymous

Anti-piracy vigilantes track file sharers 2004-03-19
Zach (1 replies)

Anti-piracy vigilantes track file sharers 2004-03-20
Anonymous

ROTFLMAO! 2004-03-19
Penguinisto

Breaking the law 2004-03-19
Anonymous (1 replies)

Breaking the law 2004-03-23
Anonymous

Anti-piracy vigilantes track file sharers 2004-03-19
Anonymous

Anti-piracy vigilantes track file sharers 2004-03-19
Anonymous

Anti-piracy vigilantes track file sharers 2004-03-19
Anonymous (1 replies)

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Anonymous

Anti-piracy vigilantes track file sharers 2004-03-19
Anonymous (1 replies)

Anti-piracy vigilantes track file sharers 2004-03-19
Anonymous

Anti-piracy vigilantes track file sharers 2004-03-19
Anonymous (1 replies)

Anti-piracy vigilantes track file sharers 2004-03-21
Anonymous

This is stupid, here is why. 2004-03-19
Anonymous (1 replies)

This is stupid, here is why. 2004-03-20
Anonymous

Anti-piracy vigilantes track file sharers 2004-03-19
Anonymous

Anti-piracy vigilantes track file sharers 2004-03-19
Jim Reading tomshardware

Anti-piracy vigilantes track file sharers 2004-03-19
Anonymous

Anti-piracy vigilantes track file sharers 2004-03-20
Anonymous

Anti-piracy vigilantes track file sharers 2004-03-20
Anonymous

You all might think it's all fun and games.............. 2004-03-20
neb (3 replies)

You all might think it's all fun and games.............. 2004-03-21
bl0rf

You all might think it's all fun and games.............. 2004-03-21
Anonymous (1 replies)

You all might think it's all fun and games.............. 2004-03-23
Dragon (1 replies)

...LOL, where does one begin? 2004-03-23
Penguinisto

You all might think it's all fun and games.............. 2004-03-26
Doug (1 replies)

Re: You all might think it's all fun and games.............. 2006-08-04
Chris

Anti-piracy vigilantes track file sharers 2004-03-20
Anonymous

Anti-piracy vigilantes track file sharers 2004-03-20
Anonymous (1 replies)

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Anonymous

Anti-piracy vigilantes track file sharers 2004-03-20
Anonymous

Questionable legality? Not by a longshot. 2004-03-20
Eric E (1 replies)

Questionable legality? Not by a longshot. 2004-03-23
Anonymous

Anti-piracy vigilantes track file sharers 2004-03-20
FTP

Definatly illegal, definatly a virus 2004-03-21
Legal software user (1 replies)

Definatly illegal, definatly a virus 2004-03-24
Anonymous

Anti-piracy vigilantes track file sharers 2004-03-21
Anonymous

Don't blame real virus coders cause if you have real copies of Windows then you are fully patched! 2004-03-21
Geist (4 replies)

blame real virus coders cause if you have real copies of Windows then you are still not fully patched! 2004-03-21
Anonymous

Don't blame real virus coders cause if you have real copies of Windows then you are fully patched! 2004-03-22
Anonymous

Don't blame real virus coders cause if you have real copies of Windows then you are fully patched! 2004-03-22
Richie086

Don't blame real virus coders cause if you have real copies of Windows then you are fully patched! 2004-03-22
southernwolf

Anti-piracy vigilantes track file sharers 2004-03-22
Anonymous

We like to call that "Entrapment" in the legal world 2004-03-22
Reuben (4 replies)

Not entrapment, but definitely a violation of privacy. 2004-03-22
j0k3r

We like to call that "Entrapment" in the legal world 2004-03-22
Anonymous

Maybe it's not entrapment. 2004-03-23
Anonymous

We like to call that "Entrapment" in the legal world 2004-03-23
Anonymous (1 replies)

We like to call that "Entrapment" in the legal world 2004-03-26
Doug

Anti-piracy vigilantes track file sharers 2004-03-22
Anonymous

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Blu

Anti-piracy vigilantes track file sharers 2004-03-23
Anonymous

McAfee agrees 2004-03-23
Anonymous

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Tek Mann

Why ? 2004-03-23
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Anonymous

Downloader beware. 2004-03-24
Anonymous

Anti-piracy vigilantes track file sharers 2004-03-25
Darkness(TrustyFiles user)

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