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)

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

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

Anti-piracy vigilantes track file sharers 2004-03-21
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 2004-03-19
Anonymous

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 (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

Well, in the case of Microsoft Longhorn's spybots, the only thing we can do is NOT buy the new product... Imagine the scene: for the first month in sales, nobody buys the new-absolutely-non-necesary MS product. What would Mr. Gates do?

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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)

Anti-piracy vigilantes track file sharers 2004-03-25
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)

Anti-piracy vigilantes track file sharers 2004-03-26
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

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

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

McAfee agrees 2004-03-23
Anonymous

Anti-piracy vigilantes track file sharers 2004-03-23
Tek Mann

Why ? 2004-03-23
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Anonymous

Downloader beware. 2004-03-24
Anonymous

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Darkness(TrustyFiles user)

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Buddha in Cayman

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Th3Pik3

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