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Produced and hosted by Jon Gordon, Future Tense brings you the latest technology topics in daily five-minute capsules. From electronic privacy and digital democracy to spam and computer worms, Future Tense keeps you up to date on the rapidly changing world of technology.
Future Tense is heard in the United States during broadcasts of the CBC's As It Happens.
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Computer science researchers at the University of California Santa Barbara earlier this year managed to infiltrate the Torpig botnet, a vast zombie network of infected Windows computers designed to steal identities and money from its victims. Torpig infects machines with malware, then monitors keystrokes to steal user names and passwords for logging into online banks and other sites.
Guest: Giovanni Vigna, UCSB
why didn't they inform the user and uninstall or disable the bot for the users?
Posted by Tom Westheimer | May 12, 2009 6:20 AM
