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<div>First make sure which topic you are interested: attacking or defending. They are of quite different philosophy. If you are into attacking in nature, you can not do very well in defending. You will find it boring.</div>
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<div>andur.<br><br> </div>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 12/18/06, <b class="gmail_sendername"><a href="mailto:Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu">Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu</a></b> <<a href="mailto:Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu">Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu</a>> wrote:
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">On Sat, 16 Dec 2006 17:55:50 GMT, Aaron Gray said:<br>><br>> >- Disassembling Vista Security<br>>
<br>> This is illegal. So not a very good idea for the thesis.<br><br>This of course is *very* dependent on what country you are in.<br><br>In the US, the most important law involved would probably be the DMCA,<br>which *does* have an exception for reverse engineering for compatibility
<br>research (17 USC 1201(f)), encryption research (17 USC 1201(g)), and<br>security testing (17 USC 1201(j)).<br><br><a href="http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode17/usc_sec_17_00001201----000-.html">http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode17/usc_sec_17_00001201----000-.html
</a><br><br>Note that 17 USC 1201(j)(2) *specifically* hints that you *really* want<br>an in-writing "Get Out Of Jail Free" card for 18 USC 1030 and related.<br><br><br>_______________________________________________
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