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Nanocore author sentenced to almost 3 years - Synthx - 02-27-2018
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/malware-author-jailed.html
RE: Nanocore author sentenced to almost 3 years - Nebula - 02-27-2018
Good riddance. Gotta stay safe when being shoddy.
RE: Nanocore author sentenced to almost 3 years - zorrophreak - 02-28-2018
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.
RE: Nanocore author sentenced to almost 3 years - d0ntjump - 02-28-2018
What a shame! He should have went with an MIT/GPLv3 and wrote a disclaimer.
RE: Nanocore author sentenced to almost 3 years - Blink - 02-28-2018
(02-28-2018, 05:40 AM)d0ntjump Wrote: 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)
RE: Nanocore author sentenced to almost 3 years - d0ntjump - 02-28-2018
(02-28-2018, 05:50 AM)Ender Wrote:(02-28-2018, 05:40 AM)d0ntjump Wrote: 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.
RE: Nanocore author sentenced to almost 3 years - mothered - 02-28-2018
(02-28-2018, 04:30 AM)zorrophreak Wrote: Well that's a shame considering he did develop it with good intentions.
Reading the article further down the page, apparently not.
Quote:In his guilty plea, Huddleston admitted that he Intended his products to be used maliciously.
RE: Nanocore author sentenced to almost 3 years - Skryptec - 02-28-2018
It's a shame he got arrested. Free him.
RE: Nanocore author sentenced to almost 3 years - ZOM_BIES - 02-28-2018
I wonder if he'd return with the Nanocore after he served his sentence.
RE: Nanocore author sentenced to almost 3 years - Bish0pQ - 02-28-2018
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...