[FD] Legality of Open Source Tools

2014-04-04 Thread Bryan Bickford
Greetings I am a security researcher who is working on a project in my free time, without going into details - the project will end with a powerful tool being publicly released. Obviously most cyber security tools have the potential for abuse. What sort of legal hurdles (if any) do you need to ov

[FD] Public WiFi Pcaps

2014-09-09 Thread Bryan Bickford
Greetings, I am starting some wifi research and had questions about the legality of listening to unencrypted, public wifi data and publishing subsequent research. >From what I understand, the wiretap act prohibits listening to communications that were not configured to be readily accessible to th