... the law is there to serve the public interest, not the other way around.
Sure they could have done this in a lab, but that would have been unconvincing of what is possible in the real world.
Yes, its rather creepy to think that BBC money went to some criminals, but that also shows it only takes a bit of spare dosh to become a cyber-terrorist or spam merchant. The same would happen if their report went out to buy an illegal firearm on the street, to show how easy it might be.
Investigative journalism often has to cross such lines to bring an issue into the open. Thats REAL journalism, not the "Here is my opinion based on second hand reports" that we see on a lot of blogs these days. Sadly, the latter seems to pay as much as the former, so is attractive to a lot of "journalists".
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