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An anonymous researcher just published a paper that claims to have mapped out almost the entire internet for the first, and perhaps the last, time.
Thing is, he used a virus to create a giant bo...
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Gust MEES's insight:
When research uses practices who go against all Ethics by using a botnet, which means that computer are getting first infected and than later connected together to form a botnet to find out about the map of the internet, one should ask about where RESEARCH is going :((( That certainly isn't good for the reputation of RESEARCH!!!
Check also:
- http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching?tag=Ethics
When research uses practices who go against all Ethics by using a botnet, which means that computer are getting first infected and than later connected together to form a botnet to find out about the map of the internet, one should ask about where RESEARCH is going :((( That certainly isn't good for the reputation of RESEARCH!!!
Check also:
- http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching?tag=Ethics