Ok I\'ve worked with some penetration testing but it\'s all done in house where

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Ok I've worked with some penetration testing but it's all done in house where I work at on a secure network to secure servers and work stations before being deployed. But my question here is kind of vague on the laws of the U.S. I want to show my girlfriends son who is interested in my line of work some examples of hacking, but I can not bring him to where I work because they live two hours away from me.

So my question here is, would it be illegal for me to set up one of my personal servers or computers on my home network and then actually hack into it from her house with in the same state? I would be using all my personally owned equipment (ie. laptop, server, desktop PC, routers and cable modems) only thing I wouldn't own is the internet itself, that is owned and controlled by bright house networks.

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Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer, nor do I know anything about being a lawyer. Although I do understand what is required to perform a pentest against a clients systems.

As you are attacking your own device, you are likely not breaking any laws. As you have express permissions from your girlfriend (I would hope so), to perform this task it will likely be safe to perform this.

As this is based on the legality if you have the proper approval to perform the pentest you are likely safe on this. (again I want to stress my disclaimer).

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