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Old 20-04-2007, 13:11
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Illegality of MUPing?

Just a question that has come up more than once, might as well ask it here. Is it illegal to practice manual unpacking, and to publish the results of your research? What if your targets weren't commercial, but co-called "unpackme's", is reversing those and publishing tuts on that still illegal?

Kind of a gray area for me

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Old 20-04-2007, 13:15
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What country are you referring to? Laws - especially ones related to new stuff such as software, computers, hacking, cracking etc. - change significantly from country to country...!
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Old 20-04-2007, 13:16
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Old 20-04-2007, 23:12
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Excuse me but 1) which country are you talking about and 2) are you a lawyer (or have you read through the related laws of that country) that you know things this well?
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Old 20-04-2007, 23:41
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No, no results on this forum, just a question in general.
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Afaik you're allowed to unpack, debug, reverse etc. to investigate malware.
If it's for your personal safety and if you feel like having to debug that and check if it's definately no malware you may do so.
That probably also depends on the country tho :/

Anyway, if you unpack ... Arma or whatever and run your dump for reasons that are not the ones listed above youre probably acting illegaly (does that word exist)...

BTW Arent you RL member ? Ive seen a caki there, but he spoke some sort of Russian lol dunno if that was you ^^
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Old 22-04-2007, 15:48
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Yeah, thats what I thought And yes, "illegally" is a word
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Personally, I don't see anything wrong with MUPing, but maybe you should post it on gwc I rather see more tutorials instead of complete tools ( I can deal with semi-automated tools that for example handle common anti-debug tricks) Like an olly script...
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