full-disclosure - Re: BBC cybercrime probe backfires

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Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2009 14:45:34 -0500
From: Ron <ron@...llsecurity.net>
To: Larry Seltzer <larry@...ryseltzer.com>
Cc: full-disclosure <full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk>
Subject: Re: BBC cybercrime probe backfires

Larry Seltzer wrote:
> If they paid for access to the botnet then there's no real moral
> difference.

I'm not sure if I agree with that, you'd have to convince me.

To me, there's a huge difference between growing/cooking drugs and
buying/using them. I think the same sense applies here.

I agree that supporting the bot-runners is a bad idea, but I don't think
that paying them for their bots puts them on equal footing.

(In my humble opinion, of course)

Ron

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