, 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)
You can't fruadulently expose criminals, even if you think it's right.
Keep in mind, unless they commit a crime, they're not criminals. And the benefit of the doubt is with them, to be determined in Court.
It's debateable (unless you're a member of MPAA, SPA, or RIAA) that file-sharing is a crime. There is not a one-to-one mapping between a shared file and a lost sale (like there would be for true "stealing"). These folks won't buy software...ever...whether it's available or not for download. So how can one claim damage? Especially enormous estimates in the billions of dollars?
If you believe in peers turning each other in, and other methods of ridding the world of "criminals," then you'd be happier in Fascist Germany, I think.
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