Search: Home Bugtraq Vulnerabilities Mailing Lists Jobs Tools Vista
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.

Submit Comment Mode:
Name:
Subject:
Message:
 
  Enter the characters that appear above
 
ROTFLMAO! 2004-03-19
Penguinisto
I think it's kinda funny, actually... I mean, if someone is dumb enough to run a binary grabbed from P2P nowadays?

It's a lot like the digital version of junkies sharing a needle, or perhaps seeing a donut that had been laying on the street in Times Square for heaven only knows how long, and thi...

[ more ]  





 

Privacy Statement
Copyright 2008, SecurityFocus