Reply #103: If this doesn't get deleted, here's what folks should know

[BevHarris]

password cracking may be a legal problem in certain circumstances. Those circumstances have not yet been defined in a court of law in this situation, which is unusual because it pits the public commons against what is already considered overly aggressive proprietary usage restrictions for copyrighted material.

However, the file in question may not be copyrighted. Don't know till you open it up. And if what's in the file is illegal, you can't protect a crime or intent to commit a crime using copyright law.

You see, you can't find out if there is dooky in the diaper unless you open the diaper.

The file in question is a vote database "repair" file dated five days after the election in Georgia, so it is somewhat suspicious.

That being said -- do not discuss techniques of password cracking on DU or on any message board. Bad idea.

ATL does not necessarily stand for Atlanta. There is an entire set of Active X commands called the ATL modules in Windows.

Bev