Botnet Infiltration Triggers Ethics Debate
This report explores the ethical dilemma encountered by researchers who successfully cracked one of the largest and most prolific robot spam networks on the internet. What do you do when you successfully manage to take over an evil spam empire; do you just turn it off? What do you become liable for if your "good deeds" have unintended consequences?
Researchers seize control of one of the world's largest spam-spewing botnets, but there is disagreement about what should happen next. Researchers at TippingPoint Technologies' Digital Vaccine Laboratories have found a way to infiltrate and seize control of one of the world's largest spam-spewing botnets, a breakthrough that has ignited an intense debate over the ethics of "cleaning" infected computers.
