Sounds like a good development to me.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 12:14 PM, Glenn Kerbein <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:glenn.kerbein@pirate-party.us">glenn.kerbein@pirate-party.us</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Torrents have always been, and usually are a haven for, malware. Fake<br>
torrents, public trackers, etc. all provide havens for distribution.<br>
Take, for instalnce, the old Storm Botnet which started from spam and<br>
was controlled by a modified P2P application.<br>
<br>
The Register is known for being reputable. There's more via ZDnet, which<br>
cites Intego: <a href="http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=2418" target="_blank">http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=2418</a> .<br>
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Ray Jenson wrote:<br>
> Okay, folks... just some propaganda from The Register...<br>
><br>
> <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/01/22/mac_trojan_attack/" target="_blank">http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/01/22/mac_trojan_attack/</a><br>
><br>
> Basically, they're using a fear tactic to get people to use<br>
> legally-purchased software (an old tactic, but it's been a few months<br>
> since they tried it), and Apple's already said they're no longer going<br>
> to require a serial number in order to make the software operational<br>
> anyway... so if anyone's going to copy iWork for the Mac, the<br>
> instructions for doing so are (and I quote from the above article):<br>
> "borrow your coworker's disk".<br>
><br>
> Interesting, and potentially the mark of a turn of events for the better?<br>
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