, 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?

Anonymous
Why? I doubt you could man a distributed botnet of; "spiders","worms","Trojans","bots", "eggdrops",
choose your jargon, but how about the thousands of systems that governments are using,
what about those botnet...
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