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Re: The legal / illegal line?

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Subject: Re: The legal / illegal line?
From: "Security Guy" <security@sligoinc.com>
Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2007 13:38:51 -0500
Cc: "Barry Fawthrop" <barry@ttienterprises.org>, pen-test@securityfocus.com
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Produce a report for the company explaining how you could take control
of or pull information from their systems using the results of your
legal scan.

Any IT manager/leader/security bod should take your report seriously

...and could call the FBI/MI5/Statsi or whatever your local
constabulary is called and have you arrested under various computer
mis-use legislation. It's certainly best to obtain permission first
before doing anything whatsoever. Any legitimate pen-tester will get a
signed contract before as much as a ping scan.

I don't like the 'locked/unlocked doors' analogy. I prefer a window:
peering in someone's windows _will_ get you arrested if you linger
long enough (no, pun not intended)

-Karl

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