captaincranky
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Just for Argument's Sake...(We're Related You Know)
Consider this; my hip, rather up to date grandfather died. The old guy was even computer savvy. But, he didn't leave the passwords to his machines. How else might we, or our computer tech gain access to the machine? This might be necessary for settling his financial affairs, or perhaps just to retrieve family photos.
Law enforcement might need something like this to search a drug dealer's machine, or perhaps search for evidence in a child pornography case. (Like they don't already have it, right)!
So. why is it so often assumed that a program such as "Ophcrack" will automatically be used to evil intent? Again people make choices, not programs.
People with no possibility of having intellectual property of their our will argue to the death that downloading is legal. That is a whole lot more cut and dried than this. No, that's stealing, period.
This is silly to some extent, at least with respect to a home environment. Are you going to let someone into your home, and run a password cracker without impediment or intervention? Suggesting that something like this program shouldn't exist, is in part shirking individual responsibity for the physical security of your machine.
Consider this; my hip, rather up to date grandfather died. The old guy was even computer savvy. But, he didn't leave the passwords to his machines. How else might we, or our computer tech gain access to the machine? This might be necessary for settling his financial affairs, or perhaps just to retrieve family photos.
Law enforcement might need something like this to search a drug dealer's machine, or perhaps search for evidence in a child pornography case. (Like they don't already have it, right)!
So. why is it so often assumed that a program such as "Ophcrack" will automatically be used to evil intent? Again people make choices, not programs.
People with no possibility of having intellectual property of their our will argue to the death that downloading is legal. That is a whole lot more cut and dried than this. No, that's stealing, period.
This is silly to some extent, at least with respect to a home environment. Are you going to let someone into your home, and run a password cracker without impediment or intervention? Suggesting that something like this program shouldn't exist, is in part shirking individual responsibity for the physical security of your machine.