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Re: Publishing exploit code ruled illegal in France?
From: Vincent Archer <varcher () denyall com>
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 10:28:46 +0100
in France some strange things happen: http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/security/0,2000061744,39183862,00.htm
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Researchers that reverse engineer software to discover programming flaws can no longer legally publish their findings in France after a court fined a security expert on Tuesday.
Well, if you get to read the exact ruling, you'll find out that the decision of the court was based chiefly on the fact that the researcher did all his work on an "unlicensed" copy of the software (read "pirate copy"), not because he did reverse ingineering on it. You can lawfully reverse engineer software you legitimately own, but not the one you don't. -- Vincent ARCHER varcher () denyall com Tel : +33 (0)1 40 07 47 14 Fax : +33 (0)1 40 07 47 27 Deny All - 5, rue Scribe - 75009 Paris - France www.denyall.com _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://www.secunia.com/
Current thread:
- Publishing exploit code ruled illegal in France? sec-list (Mar 09)
- Re: Publishing exploit code ruled illegal in France? Gregh (Mar 09)
- Re: Publishing exploit code ruled illegal in France? Vincent Archer (Mar 10)
- Re: Publishing exploit code ruled illegal in France? jean-philippe Gaulier (Mar 10)
- Re: Publishing exploit code ruled illegal in France? Liu Die Yu (Mar 11)
- Re: Publishing exploit code ruled illegal in France? class 101 (Mar 11)
- Re: Publishing exploit code ruled illegal in France? Liu Die Yu (Mar 11)
- Re: Publishing exploit code ruled illegal in France? Georgi Guninski (Mar 10)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- RE: Publishing exploit code ruled illegal in France? Burnes, James (Mar 10)
- Re: Publishing exploit code ruled illegal in France? Vincent Archer (Mar 11)
- Re: Publishing exploit code ruled illegal in France? securitynews (Mar 11)
- RE: Publishing exploit code ruled illegal in France? class 101 (Mar 11)
- Re: Publishing exploit code ruled illegal in France? Gregh (Mar 09)