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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
Jim Reading tomshardware
Here's one to think about. If someone has already been able to detect and modify this code what's to say they haven't modified it to report to the wrong sites, or DOS attack someone, eating up bandwidth from it's spreading and reporting. For that fact it may have been modified to include a virus....

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