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One Man's Fight Against Forum Spam
JWSmythe writes "Free Internet Press has an interview with 'Random Digilante,' an anonymous hacker who has been taking over forum spammers' email accounts, and notifying forum operators to delete those accounts. It looks like his reasoning is sound, and his methods are safe, where he won't hurt any real users."
Forum spammer sues vigilante, gets both arrested. Vigilante does more time.
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There is an easy fix for this. In his forum's usage agreement he needs to add a line stating that if he detects you are running a spambot he has the right to hack your account & disable it. Problem solved.
There is a war going on for your mind.
he claims that since a robot registered the e-mail accounts, you aren’t infringing on any person’s rights.
I doubt that it’d fly, actually, but who knows.
Oh, it certainly wouldn't fly with Jean-Luc Picard, that's for sure.
You can't take the sky from me...
What this guys is doing is indeed illegal, but not immoral; when our government is unwilling or unable to enforce or prosecute laws it becomes incumbent upon non-sanctioned individuals to protect society by doing so.
Bruce, we've been over the five stages of grief a million times: I keep telling you, you're stuck at Anger and you need to move on.
You can't take the sky from me...
Let me guess, his e-mail is: robin.hood@sharewood-forest.com?