, 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.
Anonymous
This is both unethical and illegal.
The perpetrators are stealing information for a purpose other than indicated. The user is decieved into thinking they are running a a possibly illegal program that then in turn performs an illegal operation. Not the expected illegal operation, but illegal just ...
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