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Fedora Project Alert: SQLNinja Banned Due to Legal Concerns

Calendar Nov 12, 2010 • User Avatar Anthony Pell
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Fedora Project leaders have banned a popular penetration-testing tool from their repository out of concern it could saddle the organization with legal burdens. The move came on Monday in a unanimous vote by the Fedora Project's board of directors rejecting a request that SQLNinja be added to the archive of open-source applications. It came even as a long list of other hacker tools are included in the bundle and was harshly criticized by some security watchers.

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