Package Reviews Needed

Athmane Madjoudj athmane at fedoraproject.org
Tue Jun 7 15:44:10 UTC 2011


On 06/07/2011 12:29 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 07, 2011 at 03:12:19PM +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote:
>> Tom Callaway wrote:
>>> pyrit:
>>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=691894
>>
>> <SARCASM>Oh great, because a tool to parasite wireless connections which the
>> owners went out of the way to secure with the best available protocol is
>> EXACTLY what we need…</SARCASM>
>>
>> Use of this tool is probably against the law in most of the world. (Some
>> countries even ban using unencrypted wireless networks without explicit
>> permission.) And I fail to see any legitimate use for this tool.
>
> I don't think we should be making judgements about what people use
> programs for.  Otherwise where will it end?  'nmap'?  'cp'?
>
> (And yes, I *do* want to run this tool on my own wireless connection
> at some point now I know it exists)
>

This remind me SQLninja issue, BTW we should not ban security auditing 
apps if they meet fedora standards.

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Meeting:Board_meeting_2010-11-08
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=637402


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Athmane Madjoudj


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