, 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.
Fatman
One presumes that before the 'Bad Pirate' warning message, some sort of license agreement is displayed? Does the user have to agree to this?
If not, the law is being broken and privacy invaded. No-one has any right to install softwar...
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