, SecurityFocus 2002-09-24
A raid on the alleged author of a well-known hacker toolkit is raising eyebrows among electronic civil libertarians, and putting security researchers on guard.
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'T0rn' Arrest Alarms White Hats, Advocates
2002-09-25
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2002-09-25
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2002-09-25
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2002-09-26
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2002-09-26
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more on 'T0rn' Arrest Alarms White Hats, Advocates - making situation "absurdum"
2002-09-30
Oleg Kirillov
Oleg Kirillov
Then they should also arrest Smith, Wesson, Kalaschnikow
2002-09-28
Anonymous (2 replies)
Anonymous (2 replies)
> I mean there is a difference between writing and publishing
> a rootkit with bad intentions, and writing a security tool
> for research purposes. I'm not a lawyer but I would think it
> all comes down to intent.
Who is to declare that this tool was written with bad intentions? Only they author truely knows this. There is no government who can truely predict the intentions of every peice of code out there. Sooner or later this problem may effect a valid piece of security code which was not written with bad intentions.
Also, why should it be illegal to write code which does "bad" things. There are valid uses for this which are legal, even if they are alittle flakey to some. It is legal to use the rootkit on your own system or a system you have permission to install it on.
Programs are not illegal, the use of them can be. I am for freedom of speech.
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