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The white Hat malware crawling the wild.

dbit · 2015-10-05 07:05:01

So every once in a while a happy story, from a White Hat ? Does anyone wonder then hang on a second , its doing good right now ,.............. http://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2015/10/01/vigilante-malware-makes-you-safer/

05-10-2015 8:05am

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dbit

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So every once in a while a happy story, from a White Hat ? Does anyone wonder then hang on a second , its doing good right now ,..............

http://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2015/10/01/vigilante-malware-makes-you-safer/

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#2 05-10-2015 8:34am

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This is a perfect example of "the end justifies the means" way of thinking.

I'm all for making devices more secure. I just don't think that this is the way to go about it.

An anonymous person (or persons) making unauthorised connections to network devices and implementing unauthorised changes. What could possibly go wrong?

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