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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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Questionable Ethics? it's everywhere 2004-03-20
Anonymous
If we look around we can see that big companies are forgetting ethics more and more every day. I've heard a rumor that microsoft windows longhorn will have a built-in software authentification system so that they could monitor our software and stuff like that. i don't know where is this all going, b...

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