I could be wrong, but my guess is that this episode had some pretty heavy compliance forms to fill in. Plenty of documentary films about nefarious stuff have filmed people doing nefarious stuff when they could have waded in to stop it.. It is a grey area for legal I'm sure. But my initial reaction to this is to ask whether as a tech community we are going to jump on the BBC for making a programme about the dangers of botnets and using one in a controlled fashion, or maybe ask some hard questions about how botnets get financed and are able to bank the money they earn?
all the best, martin 2009/3/12 Sam Mbale <smb...@mpelembe.net>: > The idea that botnets — networks of innocent PCs surreptitiously hijacked by > evildoers and turned to nefarious purposes — pose a security threat both to > computer owners and attack targets should be pretty common knowledge by now. > The BBC tech show “Click,” however, felt its viewers could use a graphic > reminder, and in putting one together, managed to stumble into some > decidedly gray legal territory. > > Full story > http://blogs.siliconvalley.com/gmsv/2009/03/bbc-becomes-the-british-botnet-corporation.html > I saw the demo on the 6 o'clock news today, and I did wonder about the legal > implications. > rgds > Sam Mbale > Mpelembe Network > http://www.mpelembe.net > > Follow me on http://twitter.com/mpelembe > > > -- Martin Belam - http://www.currybet.net - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
