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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 2004-03-20
Anonymous
The word hypocrisy does spring quite quickly to mind when thinking of these two students.

Stupidity in the case of those who didn't lock their firewalls or didn't have one installed also comes to mind quite quickly. And to think, the ppl downloading these files should know better. ...

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