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Re: Encrypted morally grey

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Originally Posted by Guppy294 View Post
Someone can correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe they don't mind what your intent is, just what you can say on their forum.
You're not wrong at all.

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Originally Posted by CD Rules
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People are free to do whatever they want to the manual (I would discourage that they try to crack it - it's encrypted for a very good reason), but as long as they don't post about it here, there's nothing we can do. In the past, the discussion is usually okay if it focuses on the theory of encryption and breaking them, but once it crosses into actually trying to break the password is when we move towards the wrong side of the grey area.

...just my $0.02 and interpretation of the rules
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