Comments on: ratproxy – Passive Web Application Security Audit Tool

By: zupakomputer

zupakomputer — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 21:38:09 +0000

Personally I doubt they’d not pass that law; they’ve outlawed smoking in cafes and pubs for f**ks sake so they won’t bat an eyelid at making stuff that has anything to do with ‘hacker’ illegal. They know they can get away with anything when they’ve been allowed to stop cig smoking in nightclubs. And the same Euro-nutters have the cheek to boycott the Olympics cause China are bad to Tibet…..like they have a track record for human rights either.

Not that it’ll make any difference to it’s avalibility if they do; they made drugs illegal too and that business has increased about a billion fold, with many new product additions invented, since the 1970s when those laws largely were put into place.

“I’ll tell you this: no eternal reward will forgive us now for wasting the dawn.”

Anyone that thinks they can stop me looking at net traffic can go Jump Off A Cliff Simulator. I’ll trainspott all I want.

By: Navin

Navin — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 09:04:10 +0000

grav makes a very good point!! hacking tools can be used to hack or to prevent hacking!! But frankly, issueing something like licences for these tools will simply increase the view tht hacking is all bad!

Cmon, just consider guns….. the general assumption in this age is tht they are bad, but in ages before licences they were considered as protection devices for the rich and famous!!

@ razta: isn’t tht wht they’re spozed to do?? interfere into unknown territory and mess up so bad tht they get removed and then get replaced?? i hope you remember tht Kevin Mitnick never ran for the post of MP!! ;)

By: Sandeep Nain

Sandeep Nain — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 00:08:31 +0000

One more good step taken by google…..
Giving one of their very important internal tool for free.
hats off to google…

@grav, yes this tool will be banned if the law against hacking tools is implemented But I don’t really think that this law will be passed at all. Fingers crossed.

By: razta

razta — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 21:39:49 +0000

Maybe we will soon need a ‘special’ license to run ‘hacking’ software, just like you do with guns. Why do MP’s make decisions on topics they havent got a clue about?

By: grav

grav — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:03:01 +0000

Suppose the UK passes the law banning the use of “hacking tools”
Will this still be banned?

Stuff that the government does brings up questions about the ethics of government. Sure…people do bad stuff with hacking tools. Even the purpose of most hacking tools is usually nefarious. Does that mean that the gov’nt has the power to take away the right to bear arms? A gun’s purpose is to kill, but it can be used for better means. The same way, hacking tools can be used to hack or to prevent hacking!

I agree with Michal Zalewski on how this tool will help web communities.

By: razta

razta — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 10:19:16 +0000

This tool is used and coded by Google:

“We feel it will be a valuable contribution to the information security
community, helping advance the community’s understanding of security challenges associated with contemporary web technologies.” Google security engineer Michal Zalewski

By: Navin

Navin — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 09:46:13 +0000

something very funny happened

I’ve been reading darknet for a long time through this PC widout any problem but when I clicked on this very article my isp blocked it (maybe coz of the word proxy in the web-address)…so i’m currently reading this through a circumventor….hehe….you can’t keep me away frm darknet Mr. managerofmyisp

hehe