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Re: [fyodor@insecure.org: C|Net Download.Com is now bundling Nmap
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ray Soucy)
Tue Dec 6 13:57:43 2011
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Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2011 13:56:36 -0500
From: Ray Soucy <rps@maine.edu>
To: "andrew.wallace" <andrew.wallace@rocketmail.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
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I'm pretty sure nmap is the exact opposite of Malware.
It's an essential information security tool.
Fyodor,
Reach out to the Free Software Foundation and EFF. They may not be
able to help directly, but I'm sure that they could put you in touch
with some pro bono legal experts that could give you the right advice
on how to act.
As mentioned, both Lessig, and Eben Moglen, would be good starting points.
On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 1:30 PM, andrew.wallace
<andrew.wallace@rocketmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 4:48 PM,=A0 <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu> wrote:
>> On the other hand, just being Fyodor is sufficient to get him taken seri=
ously.
>
> It could be argued that Nmap is malware, and such software has already be=
en called to be made illegal.
>
> If I was Cnet, I would stop distributing his software altogether.
>
> Link: http://nmap.org/book/legal-issues.html
>
> Andrew
>
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Ray Soucy
Epic Communications Specialist
Phone: +1 (207) 561-3526
Networkmaine, a Unit of the University of Maine System
http://www.networkmaine.net/
