The BBC has made an odd move recently by buying/seeding a botnet of 22,000 computers under the guise of investigative journalism. They claim it’s not illegal as they caused no harm and only sent spam to e-mail accounts used by themselves. Technically I think it’s still breaking the law under the Computer Misuse Act but […]
BBC Unleashes Botnet For ‘Investigation’
Topic: Legal Issues, Malware, Spammers & Scammers