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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
I know this is a somewhat extreme example, but I believe the underlying message is the same.

Say I don't like car thieves. (I really, really don't... I love my car. :] ) Would it be ethical for me, then, to get, say, a Ferrari 360, plant a car bomb, and leave it parked in the middle of Detroit f...

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