full-disclosure - Cisco's stolen code

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From: keydet89 at yahoo.com (Harlan Carvey)
Subject: Cisco's stolen code

m5x,

As with most public forums, you've missed the point...

--- madsaxon <madsaxon@...ecway.com> wrote:
> At 10:45 AM 5/25/2004 -0700, Harlan Carvey wrote:
> 
> >Valdis,
> >
> >I sincerely hope that you do not presume to speak
> for
> >everyone...
> 
> He's not offering an opinion, merely stating a fact:
> if whitehats are security researchers who don't
> break the law, then they don't audit code the
> possession of which is illegal.  The only
> debatable point here is the definition of
> "whitehat,"
> but that's really just a matter of semantics.
> This code is the proprietary property of Cisco.
> Anyone who knowingly examines it or even possesses
> it without Cisco's permission is in violation of
> the law in most countries, and therefore not,
> by definition, acting as a "whitehat."
> 
> m5x
> 
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