re: Why are cracks illegal?
Sunday, November 25, 2001 at 11:06 am
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Posted by UnDEAD
(1 messages posted)
I think they are illegal because they're made by reverse engineering the product
(... but how do they prove this?), and because you're not allowed to modify the program
in it's binary form...
*what the hell... you can't even debug an operating system you bought?* Well, you
can... But you're not allowed to spread information, tools, utilities, papers on
what you've learned...
On Monday, November 12, 2001 at 12:00 pm, mmp wrote:
>You mention that cracks are unethical and illegal. Why exactly? Unethical - i
guess
>that is up to individuals to decide. I don't agree that it is illegal. The DMCA
>protects circumvension of encryption techniques to gain access to copyright materials.
> Is WPA really an encryption technique? I don't think so. What other laws could
>be used to consider WPA cracks illegal?
>
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- Why are cracks illegal? (mmp: Monday, November 12, 2001 at 12:00 pm)
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