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Author Kills DarkComet Spyware After Syria Uses It

Posted by Unknown on from the evil-doer-with-a-conscience dept.

judgecorp writes "DarkcoderSc (Jean-Pierre Lesueur) has ended the DarkComet Remote Access Tool (RAT) project, after it emerged that the Syrian government had used the software to spy on its opponents. The tool was also used to target Mac OS X systems last year."

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  1. Re:Prosecute authors of remote administration tool by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    So your logic is: if Syria = Terrorism and Syria = (RAT) , there for (RAT) = Terrorism?

  2. I don't get it... by ettusyphax · · Score: 3, Insightful

    So he shut the project down ostensibly because the Syrian government was using it to spy on citizens or whatever. "Misuse of the tool" being his words. Okay yeah that sucks but what did he expect people to use it for? Monitoring their baby's computer to make sure it doesn't choke on the keys? Shutting it down now as opposed to before when it was never used for nefarious ends? Seems like a pile of BS to me. More likely he shut it down because of legal threats now that he's on the radar - as is not-so-subtly implied by the article.

    You made a bomb "for educational purposes" and then gave it away. Don't pretend like you're on some moral high ground when it goes off in someone's face and your name shows up in the newspaper.