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Re: The legal / illegal line?

To: Philosophil <flosofl@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: The legal / illegal line?
From: "Varun Nair" <varun@xt1237.com>
Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2007 23:44:54 +0530
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2 options:

1. Offer to do a free lightweight pen test for the company. They might
engage you for free and when you have something you can convince them
to hire you for a more comprehensive paid pen test.

2. Use Google and other resources to indirectly find issues with the
network/website under question and show it to them. IANAL but I do not
think this would be illegal. Maybe others can comments on this...

Regards,
Varun V Nair

On 05/03/07, Philosophil <flosofl@gmail.com> wrote:
I'd say it's pretty straight forward:

Legal = you or your company is hired and has a contract with very
specific language detailing what is to be tested

Illegal = you perform an unsolicited pen-test in order to drum up
business.  Or even to be a "good citizen"

Basically, CYA and only do testing you have been hired to do.  Do no
more than that, or be willing to face potential legal nightmare.

Just my 2 cents.


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