The BBC technology programme, Click, courted controversy with a practical demonstration of how spam botnets work. Technology correspondent Jon Wilcox reports on reactions to the show.
The 14 March edition, which remains available to view until Saturday via the BBC iPlayer, shows how the production team gained access to more than 21,000 compromised PCs to send spam emails and execute a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack.
The Beeb has defended the programme as in the public interest, arguing that "as a result of the investigation computer users around the world are now better informed of the importance and value of using basic security techniques."
Some commentators however aren't so sure of the merits, or legality, of the actions taken in the Click special. IT lawyer, Robert Carolina called in Computer Weekly for an investigation into the actions of the production team: “The act of commandeering more than 21,000 computers around the world may very well constitute a violation of the criminal laws in many of the countries where those computers reside," he wrote.
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