User blog comment:Dark Falkner/The Hacking Change Project/@comment-1176146-20100907142626

Hacking is illegal. Cheating is usually legal.

Perming items is cheating — sending a packet or calling a shell function would handle that easily (if the item is non-patched).

While WPE Pro is, like 24.98.152.127 said, neutral on legality, it can perform illegal tasks, such as getting membership. However, this is still considered cheating.

If you break into their FTP server or database, it's considered hacking.

@Dodo8: They can't. The site isn't illegal, and how in the world would they disable it?!