[funsec] So, did the BBC cross the line?

[Florian Weimer]

* Alex Eckelberry:

> But malware researchers routinely deal with botnets for analysis
> purposes.  It would be considered a high crime indeed to allow a spambot
> to actually send spam to the outside world, even for "testing" purposes.

I think you've missed the peer-reviewed paper for an ACM conference
where the researchers did exactly that.  It's probably not even an
obscure group, I recognized the name of one of the coauthors (and I
usually can't remember names). 8-/