Re: Publishing exploit code ruled illegal in France?

[Vincent Archer <varcher () denyall com>]

> in France some strange things happen:
> http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/security/0,2000061744,39183862,00.htm
...
> 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.

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