The BBC's Botnet controlled 22,000 home computers

This is the report I saw today in Computer Weekly.

How can that have been legal? If you or I did that we'd have been prosecuted under the Computer Misuse Act wouldn't we?

Now I know that the vast millions out there are totally unaware that their damned PC has been compromised and is running someone else's crap, but that's no reason for the BBC to perpetrate an attack, is it?  

Follow the link, read the article, watch the video and then start asking questions.

When the journalist becomes the news isn't it time for the journalist to go?  And also the producer and the people who signed the programme off.  In reality this is as offensive as the Ross and Brand stupid phone call to Andrew Sachs.