[Synthx]

The author of Nanocore RAT has finally been sentenced to almost 3 years in prison. When he started developing the RAT, his intentions where to aid schools and companies, but of course skids started to use it and spread it.

Source: https://thehackernews.com/2018/02/malwar...ailed.html

[Nebula]

Good riddance. Gotta stay safe when being shoddy.

[zorrophreak]

Well that's a shame considering he did develop it with good intentions. A good note to anyone designing said software in the future, make sure to check who you're selling to and have proper disclaimers.

[d0ntjump]

What a shame! He should have went with an MIT/GPLv3 and wrote a disclaimer.

[Blink]

What a shame! He should have went with an MIT/GPLv3 and wrote a disclaimer.

Nah, BSD ftw

I actually really like BSD licensing, doesn't waste a ton of space with vague terms like GPL. MIT is nice too

(Best is Beerware)

[d0ntjump]

What a shame! He should have went with an MIT/GPLv3 and wrote a disclaimer.

Nah, BSD ftw  

I actually really like BSD licensing, doesn't waste a ton of space with vague terms like GPL.  MIT is nice too

(Best is Beerware)

Yeah, you're right. BSD would probably be a better choice.

[mothered]

Well that's a shame considering he did develop it with good intentions.

Reading the article further down the page, apparently not.

In his guilty plea, Huddleston admitted that he Intended his products to be used maliciously.

[Skryptec]

It's a shame he got arrested. Free him.

[ZOM_BIES]

I wonder if he'd return with the Nanocore after he served his sentence.

[Bish0pQ]

I have heard about this, this again shows why proper licensing is very important. We'll never know what he actually intended to do, but it's ashame he has to serve 3 years. In my opinion there are still no proper laws in terms of hacking/coding/cracking etc...