Reply #48: How could it be a crime? [View All]

Did Curtis have knowledge that Feeney was going to use this in an election? If so I believe he would have stated it. To use an analogy, I can dream and plan of robbing a bank, but not have an intent to rob the bank. I may even be doing it to see if it is possible to see if I could prevent such a crime.

However, we do not know that, if the allegations made are true, that there it was ever used on intended to be used.

I run a software company, and yes it could be done. But if I was going to do something like this I would not use any established company, I would go find a professional free lance hacker to do it for me. However to do it successfully I would have to have the source code for the program in order to write an effective program and test it. Simply having the program does me little good. Even hacking a database can be substantial work and i would have to have access to the database itself in order to understand the database structure and how to hack it.

Actually writing the code is simple once I can read and understand the source code, and understand the database structure. But I still would have to access to source and database structure and fields in order to be successful.

Access to source code is extremely tough, companies protect this as if it was Fort Knox and will not release it to anyone since it is highly proprietary and releasing it would be giving away their source of revenue and an asset to the company.

Decompiling source code can be done, but it is a tough task.