Telco Tyranny or Traffic Control? South Korea’s KT Accused of Malware Mayhem on P2P Pirates

Caught in a web of their own making, South Korea’s KT telco stands accused of playing doctor with a malware scalpel, allegedly performing unsolicited ‘surgery’ on 600,000 ‘web hard drives’. Who needs consent when you’ve got comedic timing?

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When you thought your telco was just providing you shoddy service, it turns out they might have been treating your downloads like a game of Whack-a-Malware. South Korea's KT might have taken "cutting the cord" a tad too literally by allegedly infecting P2P pirates with digital scurvy. Yo ho ho and a bottle of... antivirus?

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