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Opinion: BBC Click exploited world’s poor and vulnerable

Opinion
Date: 13 May 2009

By purchasing and using an illegal computer botnet, BBC’s “Click” programme chose to educate their affluent English-speaking technically savvy audience about computer security by exploiting 21,000 poor and vulnerable computer users in the developing world.

Opinion: Why BBC Click violated the Computer Misuse Act

Opinion
Date: 11 May 2009

In my previous discussions of BBC Click’s BotNet programme I avoided a detailed discussion of the law. Whatever the law says, I believe their actions were irresponsible.

Opinion: The unanticipated consequences of BBC Click's botnet crime

Opinion
Date: 15 April 2009

After I described the actions of BBC Click’s production team in broadcasting their botnet special as “irresponsible, unethical, and almost certainly illegal” (ComputerWeekly 17 March 2009) I heard more than a few questions.

BBC's Click botnet special was irresponsible and illegal

News
Date: 17 March 2009

I am stunned by the irresponsible, unethical, and almost certainly illegal, actions of BBC’s “Click” programme in preparing and broadcasting its “botnet” special on Saturday.

Articles by Robert Carolina

Opinion: BBC Click exploited world’s poor and vulnerable

Opinion: Why BBC Click violated the Computer Misuse Act

Opinion: The unanticipated consequences of BBC Click's botnet crime

BBC's Click botnet special was irresponsible and illegal

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