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Dual-Use Software Criminal Case Not So Novel

4th April 2017

 

“He built a piece of software. That tool was pirated and abused by hackers. Now the feds want him to pay for the computer crooks’ crimes.”

 

The above snippet is the subhead of a story published last month by the The Daily Beast titled, “FBI Arrests Hacker Who Hacked No One.” The subject of that piece — a 26-year-old American named Taylor Huddleston — faces felony hacking charges connected to two computer programs he authored and sold: An anti-piracy product called Net Seal, and a Remote Administration Tool (RAT) called NanoCore that he says was a benign program designed to help users remotely administer their computers.

 

              A screen shot of Zach

             A screen shot of Zach “Mephobia” Shames on Hackforums discussing the relationship between his Limitless keylogger and Huddleston’s (Aeonhack) Net Seal anti-piracy and payment platform.

 

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