, 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
Second; No.
Compare: You can probably patent a harmful drug (thereby gaining legal protection for it from compeditors) but they are STILL harmful drug...
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