The blandly domained news.com today posts a story on an FBI sting operation. The agent, apparently having solved the terrorism issue before lunch, posted a nonsense video file and called it child pornography, then went after all the IP addresses in his log.
Now, you and I being the tech-savvy people we are, we can see the dangers in this. In fact, anybody who's ever actually tried to analyze a server log should have alarm bells going off at this point: an IP trace is sufficiently vague that it really, really, really shouldn't be sufficient cause to impound your computers and freeze your bank account.
Shouldn't -- but is. Legally.
Watch what you click -- if I were a Russian botnet operator, I know how I'd be attacking antispammers, for instance.
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