, 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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Good for them
2004-03-19
nosebreaker.com (1 replies)
nosebreaker.com (1 replies)
Good for them? - Questionable Ethics
2004-03-20
Anonymous (4 replies)
Anonymous (4 replies)
Questionable Ethics? it's everywhere
2004-03-20
Anonymous (1 replies)
Anonymous (1 replies)
You all might think it's all fun and games..............
2004-03-20
neb (3 replies)
neb (3 replies)
You all might think it's all fun and games..............
2004-03-21
Anonymous (1 replies)
Anonymous (1 replies)
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)
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
Anonymous
Don't blame real virus coders cause if you have real copies of Windows then you are fully patched!
2004-03-22
Anonymous
Anonymous
We like to call that "Entrapment" in the legal world
2004-03-22
Reuben (4 replies)
Reuben (4 replies)
This is both unethical and illegal.
The perpetrators are stealing information for a purpose other than indicated. The user is decieved into thinking they are running a a possibly illegal program that then in turn performs an illegal operation. Not the expected illegal operation, but illegal just the same.
It is
(a) unethical to take information without consent or legal warrant.
(b) illegal to take the same information without consent or legal warrant.
These self proclaimed 'heroes' of anti-priracy are guilty, of more serious crimes than keygenmakers as they decieve and steal.
By comparison they keygenmakers are honest, what they promise to deliver is real and does not rape the trust of the user, only the pocketbook of they software maker if the product is used for illegal purpose, and not even that if the key is not used for illegal purpose.
These vigilantes are the electronic equivalant of a lynch mob acting as judge, jury, and executioner, outside the law, violating the public trust and thier own ISPs Terms Of Service.
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