Quote from the article:
"Active interference with a botnet may carry serious legal consequences for researchers, since the botnet hosts are effectively computer systems belonging to third parties, who ordinarily are unaware that their systems are being misused."
And we wonder why the bots are beating us? This type of research and activity should be welcomed and not touted as being illegal just as the bots are illegal.
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