Bug#222899: Is this legal? [RFP: djohn -- Distributed password cracker]

2007-01-04 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 01:25:08AM -0400, Jose Luis Rivas Contreras wrote: Hi, I was checking some old RFP's and I find this one. Is a little program that distribute the job of cracking passwords using John the Ripper. I think this is not totally legal to be packaged officially for Debian.

Bug#222899: Is this legal? [RFP: djohn -- Distributed password cracker]

2007-01-04 Thread Jose Luis Rivas Contreras
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andrew Donnellan escribió: Password cracking in itself has always been legal AFAIK. Using password crackers to crack other peoples systems without permission (ie. illegally obtaining access) is definitely illegal. There are legitimate uses for

Bug#222899: Is this legal? [RFP: djohn -- Distributed password cracker]

2007-01-03 Thread Jose Luis Rivas Contreras
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I was checking some old RFP's and I find this one. Is a little program that distribute the job of cracking passwords using John the Ripper. I think this is not totally legal to be packaged officially for Debian. Jose Luis, P.S. Please CC me

Bug#222899: Is this legal? [RFP: djohn -- Distributed password cracker]

2007-01-03 Thread Andrew Donnellan
Password cracking in itself has always been legal AFAIK. Using password crackers to crack other peoples systems without permission (ie. illegally obtaining access) is definitely illegal. There are legitimate uses for tools like djohn, eg. for security testing, for data recovery, etc. On

Bug#222899: Is this legal? [RFP: djohn -- Distributed password cracker]

2007-01-03 Thread Andrew Donnellan
On 1/4/07, Masayuki Hatta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, In [EMAIL PROTECTED] Andrew Donnellan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Password cracking in itself has always been legal AFAIK. Using password crackers to crack other peoples systems without permission (ie. illegally obtaining access) is

Bug#222899: Is this legal? [RFP: djohn -- Distributed password cracker]

2007-01-03 Thread Masayuki Hatta
Hi, In [EMAIL PROTECTED] Andrew Donnellan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Password cracking in itself has always been legal AFAIK. Using password crackers to crack other peoples systems without permission (ie. illegally obtaining access) is definitely illegal. There are legitimate uses for

Bug#222899: Is this legal? [RFP: djohn -- Distributed password cracker]

2007-01-03 Thread Mike Hommey
On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 06:04:21PM +1100, Andrew Donnellan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: AFAIK, in many jurisdictions, in regards to copyright circumvention it is often determined on the basis of 'is there any commercially viable legal use?' rather than 'is there any legal use?'. Did anyone