He's not talking about exploit code, just code that breaks technological measures used to protect copyright and might therefore be subject to DMCA. A decryption engine [of nearly any sort; ROT13, anyone?] usually falls into that category. Exploit code doesn't necessarily. It's a stupid law, but it is a law, and it's good that people be informed about how ridiculous it is if they're not already.
http://anti-dmca.org/ -- Jordan Wiens, CISSP UF Network Incident Response Team (352)392-2061 On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, morning_wood wrote: > i ( we ) ( illmob.org ) released the first windows compiled rpc-dcom exploit > into the wild weeks before msblaster used the basic version of this, and we > live in the US. > since when did releasing non propagating code constitute a crime??? > > morning_wood > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Cael Abal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2003 8:25 PM > Subject: Re: [Full-Disclosure] VBScript/JScript.Encode Decoder > > > > > VBS_DEC.PAS -> > > > > > > program vbs_dec; { Decrypts encrypted VBScript and JScript programs } > > > { Copyright (c) 09/2003 Andreas Marx / > > > http://www.av-test.org } > > > > Greetings Andreas, > > > > I hope you aren't intending to visit the US any time soon -- you've just > > released into the wild a tool which can be used for Circumvention of > > Copyright Protection Systems. > > > > Yay, DMCA! > > > > (Thanks, by the way.) > > > > Cael > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. > > Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html > > > > _______________________________________________ > Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. > Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html > _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html
