Re: SF new article announcement: Can writing software be a crime?

[Jonathan Loh <kj6loh () yahoo com>]

Along this same line of thought the auditor cd collection has had some
difficulties with their google ad generation (AdSense?), because of the pretty
much the same thing.  

<a href="http://www.remote-exploit.org";>auditor</a>.

Apparently he's taken news of this down.  But you can probably still email him
about it.

--- cc <cc () belfordhk com> wrote:

> Kelly Martin sighed and wrote::
>
> > The following column was published on SecurityFocus today:
> >
> > Can writing software be a crime?
> > by Mark Rasch
> > 2005-10-03
> >
> > A recent case shows the government attempting to prosecute the developer
> > of a key logger software that can be used for both lawful and unlawful
> > purposes.
>
> Pardon my ignorance, but I find it a little 'strange' that the
> government should be cracking down on this type of thing.  There
> are certainly a lot of products under the sun that fit the
> description of "<product x> can be used for both lawful and
> unlawful purposes".   Wouldn't this open a larger can of
> worms, so to speak?
>
> Or am I just misreading this whole thing?



        
                
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