Re: the lack of legal backing here are a number of links that appear relevant to the question (do you violate copyright by publishing hacker code, discovered subsequent to intrusion?). Indeed it appears that the law is fuzzy on this one concerning copyright and intellectual property. But, given the circumstance that a listing or binary of the aformentioned code can not be deterined as authorized in the first case - the intrusion itself is illegal, it appears it can not pass the copyright or intellectual property tests. Refs with USC refs: http://www.eff.org/Publications/Mike_Godwin/phrack_riggs_neidorf_godwin.article Ref with USC footnotes: http://www.netatty.com/copyright.html On Wednesday, July 25, 2001 11:48 AM, aleph1at_private [SMTP:aleph1at_private] wrote: > The are quite a few responses to this thread but its painfully obvious > that no one is quite sure if what they are saying is backed by law. > Lots of IANAL. So unless someone with more than a simply opinion posts > I'll kill the thread here. > > -- > Elias Levy > SecurityFocus.com > http://www.securityfocus.com/ > Si vis pacem, para bellum
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