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

["Scot Scot" <scotw@hotmail.com>]

Oh man, this is going to be a good one. The man by law may not serve a day 
in prision. It is not illegal to use tools like l0pht crack. They are 
administrative tools (hehe). This is what the case will boil down to. The 
chick will be in deep shi# for issuing that David guy a login name and 
password. He did not hack the system, he had a username and password.

One other issue that will decide whether or not David spends some quality 
time as Bubba's Bitc# (hehe)... is if the company he supposidly hacked did 
not have adequate warning banners notifying intruders that they are not 
authorized to access their systems. That company is going to have a tough 
day in court.

Scot Wiedenfeld
Computer Security Specialist
Laws/Ethics/Intrusion Detection




>So what's the word, LegalEagll??  a Felony or not??
>=====================
>>www.channel4000.com/news/stories/news-20000217-164727.html
>>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). "
>>
>>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. "
>>
>>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
>

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