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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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Buddha in Cayman
Good for them 2004-03-19
nosebreaker.com (1 replies)
Good for them? - Questionable Ethics 2004-03-20
Anonymous (4 replies)
Good for them? - Questionable Ethics 2004-03-20
Anonymous (1 replies)
Questionable Ethics? it's everywhere 2004-03-20
Anonymous (1 replies)
Questionable Ethics? it's everywhere 2004-03-21
Anonymous (1 replies)
Anti-piracy vigilantes track file sharers 2004-03-19
Zach (1 replies)
Anti-piracy vigilantes track file sharers 2004-03-20
Anonymous
The word hypocrisy does spring quite quickly to mind when thinking of these two students.

Stupidity in the case of those who didn't lock their firewalls or didn't have one installed also comes to mind quite quickly. And to think, the ppl downloading these files should know better.

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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 (1 replies)
Anti-piracy vigilantes track file sharers 2004-03-19
Anonymous (1 replies)
Anti-piracy vigilantes track file sharers 2004-03-19
Anonymous (1 replies)
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
Jim Reading tomshardware
Anti-piracy vigilantes track file sharers 2004-03-20
Anonymous (1 replies)
Definatly illegal, definatly a virus 2004-03-21
Legal software user (1 replies)
McAfee agrees 2004-03-23
Anonymous
Why ? 2004-03-23
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Downloader beware. 2004-03-24
Anonymous
Anti-piracy vigilantes track file sharers 2004-03-25
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