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Stop the bots
Kelly Martin, 2006-04-18

Botnets are a major source of evil on the Internet, from spam, phishing attacks, virus propagation and denial-of-service attacks to the stealing of financial information and other illegal activity. Does disbanding them raise legal and ethical implications?

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Stop the bots 2006-04-18
Anonymous
There is another interesting legal twist that I'm not sure has been looked at yet: What if the bot code is copywrited uses a rights management system to access, monitor and control the network. Would investigating how the botnet works and what the code is doing violate the DMCA? Especially in the...

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