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Please hack my site, and help me improve it.
Posted: Sat Dec 11, 2010 11:29 pm
by condoravenue1
Re: Please hack my site, and help me improve it.
Posted: Sat Dec 11, 2010 11:37 pm
by s.dot
What do you mean hack your site?
If you mean, try to intentionally break into it.. I do believe it is illegal even with permission!
Re: Please hack my site, and help me improve it.
Posted: Sun Dec 12, 2010 2:27 am
by internet-solution
s.dot wrote:What do you mean hack your site?
If you mean, try to intentionally break into it.. I do believe it is illegal even with permission!
Thats interesting. Have you read it somewhere?? Any reference?
Re: Please hack my site, and help me improve it.
Posted: Sun Dec 12, 2010 3:13 am
by social_experiment
@condoravenue1 : Google 'Penetration testing' or 'pen tests'.
Re: Please hack my site, and help me improve it.
Posted: Sun Dec 12, 2010 6:37 am
by s.dot
internet-solution wrote:s.dot wrote:What do you mean hack your site?
If you mean, try to intentionally break into it.. I do believe it is illegal even with permission!
Thats interesting. Have you read it somewhere?? Any reference?
Feyd once told me this.. he's a brilliant man. Also something about breaking into computers across state lines (I have a bad memory).
A quick google turned up this:
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Is_hacking_legal
The other answers for googling "is hacking legal with permission" seem to be a very gray area:
http://www.google.com/search?q=is+hacki ... =firefox-a
Re: Please hack my site, and help me improve it.
Posted: Sun Dec 12, 2010 8:59 am
by social_experiment
Yes, hacking is illegal. If it were legal, it would be called programming. If it were programming, you'd get paid for it, not arrested. Yes, most hacking is illegal.
I especially liked this answer

Re: Please hack my site, and help me improve it.
Posted: Sun Dec 12, 2010 6:39 pm
by Jonah Bron
I think it would be legal if it belonged to you, you hacked a local copy, or you had written permission.
Re: Please hack my site, and help me improve it.
Posted: Fri Dec 17, 2010 4:24 pm
by jarofgreen
Depends where you are of course.
Here in the UK, I've seen a talk from a pen tester so it's clearly doable. But he said they don't work in Germany cos the laws are to strict there.
Back to the original question: You should probably define this better. For instance, would you count a DOS attack as a hack? Cos if not you should really say so now before your site disappears (I do hope your not on shared hosting)
Re: Please hack my site, and help me improve it.
Posted: Fri Dec 17, 2010 4:54 pm
by jarofgreen
Only spent 2 mins looking at it, but noticed you have directory listings enabled. You usually want to turn those off.
Re: Please hack my site, and help me improve it.
Posted: Tue Dec 21, 2010 6:48 am
by Kalidass
Your user name field was not checking the corect string format. so first improve that