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Re: US cybercrime laws being used to target security researchers | Technology | The Guardian
From: Allen D <multimode1876 () gmail com>
Date: Fri, 30 May 2014 08:17:51 -0400
Personally I felt this was a bit of yellow journalism on the part of the guardian. The only fact I saw in the article was that HD was approached by LEO about his project involving aggressive scans of the Internet. According the the article that happened a year ago, isn't this project still ongoing? If HD was "targeted", where are the legal proceedings? If this happened a year ago; How is this "news"? The rest of the article seems to be based on opinions and speculation about how much harm would come to the world if in fact the LEO's were "targeting security researchers". Feel free to point out any facts I may have missed, the headline read* "US cybercrime laws being used to target security researchers"* however the body of the article didn’t have many facts supporting that claim. I would also have expected HD to be more vocal about something like this. I think I would give the article more credibility if it had stated the branch of law enforcement. Then again maybe I just need to re-read the article. On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 1:09 AM, Ivan .Heca <ivanhec () gmail com> wrote:
HD Moore, creator of the ethical hacking tool Metasploit and chief research officer of security consultancy Rapid7, told the Guardian he had been warned by US law enforcement last year over a scanning project called Critical.IO, which he started in 2012. The initiative sought to find widespread vulnerabilities using automated computer programs to uncover the weaknesses across the entire internet. http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/may/29/us-cybercrime-laws-security-researchers _______________________________________________ Sent through the Full Disclosure mailing list http://nmap.org/mailman/listinfo/fulldisclosure Web Archives & RSS: http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/
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