Linked by David Adams on Thu 31st Mar 2011 16:41 UTC
If you download and use what appears to be a version of the commercial "Walk and Text" Android app from a file sharing site, you're in for a surprise. When you run it, it shows you that it's being "cracked" but it's really gathering information from your device, in preparation for an e-smackdown. It sends a bunch of personal information (name, phone number, IMEI) off to a server, and, just for lulz, text messages everyone on your contact list:
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2011-03-16
You mean like your troll? The effort required of your idiotic troll is more or less the equivalent effort. You more or less proved the point.