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Posted Dec 7, 2011 22:25 UTC (Wed) by tialaramex (subscriber, #21167)
In reply to: DMCA by cmccabe
Parent article: C|Net Download.Com accused of bundling Nmap with malware

Sure, people shouldn't do it, but this is just exploiting a trust relationship.

The more certain you are that organisation (or person) X won't abuse your trust of them, the more valuable it is for X to sell you out to the bad guys, or if X won't sell, the more valuable it is to impersonate X by any means necessary.


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