Graham Cluley, SophosMar 17th, 2009 - 16:57:58

So..

If Chinese State Television decided to break into computers belonging to innocent owners of compromised PCs users and sent spam via those computers, would Comodo also applaud that?

If FOX TV decided to break into computers belonging to CNN (without permission), and sent spam from those PCs, would Comodo applaud that too?

Or if some of the computers which were broken into by the BBC were performing important medical work, or submitting someone's tax return, or could no longer communicate with the net after the BBC used up their bandwidth allowance with their spam, would Comodo applaud that as well?

What Comodo's press release and video chooses to ignore is that the BBC had both no legal right and no moral right to connect up to other people's PCs without permission, especially considering that this unauthorised access was carried out using a backdoor (the bot) which the BBC knew had almost certainly been illegally and unknowingly installed in the first place.

That's against the law in my country (the UK), and is undoubtedly against the law in the many other countries where those 22,000 computers may have been based.

Cheers
Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant, Sophos

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Peter BeakusMar 17th, 2009 - 18:10:12

Ah, another ill-thought out piece from Melih. His entire PR department should be ashamed for letting the buffoon publish that video.

Every other security firm in existence (all of whom are bigger & better than COMODO) have condemned the act - becuase of it's illegality and questionable morality.

Melih goes on record not only condoning the act, but suggesting it's a good waste of taxpayer money!

The man is truly an idiot, and you only need to read his blogs and any other posts on the internet to see he has little clue about internet security, much less stringing together an English sentence.

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missyMar 17th, 2009 - 20:39:09

He is applauding the information spreading.. Thanks to this safe testing thousand maby millions of people will clean their computers from malwares.

Thanks to this information that BBC hands out of how easy hackers can strike and how to protect yourself from online hackers the online criminal activity will decrease.

They will get a harder time infecting computers if public awareness of these stuff increases. BBC is doing crime prevention.

And no damage was done under the BBC testing, but a lot good. here is a interesting thread about it where Melih has also responded and giving his view about it..

forums.comodo.com/general_discussion_off_topic_anything_and_everything/ comodo_support_bbc-t36647.0.html

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