Legal: [NTSEC] A felony to possess L0phtcrack???

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So what's the word, LegalEagll??  a Felony or not??


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>www.channel4000.com/news/stories/news-20000217-164727.html
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>According to this article (and a Hopkins Minnesota police department), it is
>a felony to posess l0phtcrack.  Two people were charged with
>"...two counts of possession of burglary or theft tools (specifically, a
>software program for extracting user IDs and passwords from a computer
>system). "
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>Later, the articles explains that these two people '...accessed the VP
>Projects computer system and installed a software program called LOphtCrack,
>which is designed to extract user IDs and passwords. "
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>According to the article, its also a felony to attempt to gain access using
>it as well as another felony when you actually gain access.
>
>M. Burnett