The BBC botnet debacle

You just don’t get involved, because it’s not only wrong, there are too many unintended consequences that can occur.  You’re playing with fire.  Report it to the ISP, report it to the relevant authorities, but don’t play with live ammo like this. 

To have a TV show use a botnet, to “prove a point”,  is beyond the pale — particularly since the point could have easily been proven it in other ways.  

The company that helped the BBC should have put the brakes on this idea.  However, it was the BBC reporter that ultimately pulled the trigger.

Graham Cluley (a rising star in the security blogging world) has done the work so I don’t have to, and you can read more at his blog post here; and Dave Harley has done some good writing as well here.