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Symantec refuses to sell audit tool outside the US |
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Saturday, 24 December 2005 |
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Symantec has stopped selling a password auditing tool to customers outside the US and Canada, citing US Government export regulations.
A reader who works for a large UK supermarket was this month unable to buy a copy of LC 5, a tool developed by @stake prior to its recent acquisition by Symantec. LC 5 is the commercial version of a password auditing / breaking tool better known as L0phtCrack.
Click Here "A month ago I could have bought it from the @stake web site, that website has gone and the product has not appeared on the Symantec web site. I inquired if I could purchase the product, only to be told that it will only be sold to US and Canadian customers," our correspondent informs us. "I guess I'll just have to go back to using John the Ripper." |
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