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Re: Legality of Open Source Tools
From: Brandon Perry <bperry.volatile () gmail com>
Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2014 13:29:23 -0500
If I recall correctly, version 1 of metasploit actually had exploits for *live* sites (a bank) and things, so that is obviously an issue. I don't even think you will find a copy of the first version of metasploit (does HD have one locked up somewhere, who knows). Currently, metasploit is a hammer. People kill other people with hammers, but they build substantially more things than people killed. I think you need to define what sort of legal troubles you expect with open source projects. CFAA-type legal troubles, or licensing (GPL vs MIT/BSD) legal troubles. Pretty sure source code is considered free speech. So I don't think you can be held accountable for source code that you release *that you wrote yourself*. On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 5:58 AM, Bryan Bickford <bryan () unhwildhats com>wrote:
Greetings I am a security researcher who is working on a project in my free time, without going into details - the project will end with a powerful tool being publicly released. Obviously most cyber security tools have the potential for abuse. What sort of legal hurdles (if any) do you need to overcome to protect yourself when releasing software along the lines of metasploit? _______________________________________________ Sent through the Full Disclosure mailing list http://nmap.org/mailman/listinfo/fulldisclosure Web Archives & RSS: http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/
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