hacker copyrights was [RE: telnetd exploit code]

["Eric D. Williams" <eric () infobro com>]

Re: the lack of legal backing here are a number of links that appear relevant 
to the question (do you violate copyright by publishing hacker code, discovered 
subsequent to intrusion?).  Indeed it appears that the law is fuzzy on this one 
concerning copyright and intellectual property.  But,  given the circumstance 
that a listing or binary of the aformentioned code can not be deterined as 
authorized in the first case - the intrusion itself is illegal, it appears it 
can not pass the copyright or intellectual property tests.

Refs with USC refs: 
http://www.eff.org/Publications/Mike_Godwin/phrack_riggs_neidorf_godwin.article
Ref with USC footnotes: http://www.netatty.com/copyright.html

On Wednesday, July 25, 2001 11:48 AM, aleph1 () securityfocus com 
[SMTP:aleph1 () securityfocus com] wrote:
> The are quite a few responses to this thread but its painfully obvious
> that no one is quite sure if what they are saying is backed by law.
> Lots of IANAL. So unless someone with more than a simply opinion posts
> I'll kill the thread here.
>
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