, 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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This comparison of botnets and SkyNet reminded me of an old question that is not yet, I think, around:
how do you make the difference between a program that is "sincerely" faulty and one that is malicious as long as they depend on the same "bug" (which can be seen as a "functionality" in t...
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