# Replit — Ethical hacking on Replit

- Company: Replit (replit.com)
- Announced: 2022-08-15
- Category: safety-policy-update
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: announcements
- Source: https://replit.com/blog/ethical-hacking-on-replit
- Record: https://forck.live/items/18157-ethical-hacking-on-replit
- Subject: Replit Agent

Replit published a policy post distinguishing ethical hacking from abuse, listing prohibited activities such as nuke/raid bots, token grabbers, mass DM bots, phishing, DDoS attacks, and exploits, while allowing scripted interactions with third-party services, general-purpose security tools, and private repls for authorized penetration testing.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://replit.com/blog/ethical-hacking-on-replit:

> To make things a bit clearer, here are some examples of the most common violating repls that we come across on a daily basis, with explanations of why we don't allow them.

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