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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
What a refreshing story. Just when I'm ready

to give up hope, there's always something,

however small, that helps restore my faith

in humanity.

I remember a few years ago there was a sting

operation that nabbed a bunch of fugitives

by running a bogus sweepstakes. The

criminals were le...

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