[147301] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: [fyodor@insecure.org: C|Net Download.Com is now bundling Nmap
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bryan Fields)
Tue Dec 6 18:25:32 2011
Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2011 18:24:25 -0500
From: Bryan Fields <Bryan@bryanfields.net>
To: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
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On 12/6/2011 13:30, andrew.wallace wrote:
> It could be argued that Nmap is malware, and such software has already been called to be made illegal.
>
> If I was Cnet, I would stop distributing his software altogether.
>
> Link: http://nmap.org/book/legal-issues.html
If this is not trolling and you actually believe this, just wow.....
Nmap is just a tool, and any tool can be misused by people for criminal acts.
It's really no different than a gun in that regard. Both are incredibly
useful things in the right hands, mere tools to further security. However in
the wrong hands they can be used to commit crimes and break other peoples
security.
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