Thinking Outside the Legal Box
How is this for creative thinking, when you can't charge someone with distributing malware try hitting them with a copyright infringement. That just happened in Japan where three men confessed to deploying a Trojan that wipes out MP3 and movie files.
The Register quotes Graham Cluley of Sophos explaining why the police resorted to copyright charges:
"It isn't illegal to write viruses in Japan, so the author of the Trojan horse has been arrested for breaching copyright because he used cartoon graphics without permission in his malware,"
This isn't a big deal in the scheme of things but it shows the bad guys coming up with new ploys aren't the only creative ones in the game.
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