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RetroCoder Threatens Security Vendors
john83 writes "RetroCoder the company that brings you SpyMon, a commercial keylogger is trying to stop vendors of security software from looking at their software. RetroCoder uses a EULA that prohibits anti-spyware publishers / software houses from downloading, running or examining the software in any way. Essentially, they're trying to hide a key logger behind copyright law." While they are certainly not the first to do so, it is interesting that companies still take this approach.
"Essentially, they're trying to hide a key logger behind copyright law."
Copyright law doesn't have provisions for EULAs. They are using faulty contract law logic to harass security vendors. I honestly think people only think an unsigned, after-the-fact EULA means anything because they've been conditioned throughout their lives to blindingly accept authority, whether real or perceived.
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It is a well known fact that several p2p programs were attacked by the minions of various **AA, injecting malicious pseudo-clients into the essentially closed networks. Those attacks wouldn't have been possible without extensive technical analysis of the modus operandi of those networks. At least in most of those cases, it is pretty appearant that the attack was accomplished by downloading and examining the official client for that network.
Couldn't those p2p networks utilize the same defense? I.e. establish in their EULA that their code and protocol may not be examined for the purpose of a malicious sabotage in their operation?
I seem to recall that some p2p EULAs actually had such a clause. Was it ignored with no consequnces?