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Hacker Indicted In France For Publishing Exploits
Guillermito writes "Hello. I'm a French scientist living in Boston. I analyse small security softwares under Windows as a hobby, for fun and curiosity. For example, I showed how to easily extract hidden information from a dozen of steganography softwares, often commercial programs claiming a very high security level. I did the same with a french generic anti-virus, showing several security flaws, and that it didn't stop '100% of known and unknown viruses' as claimed. First the company called me a 'terrorist,' than sued me. I've just been indicted last week in Paris. It seems that it's a general trend in France, and maybe in Europe, these days."
Now you get to search for holes in the French jail system. Find a big enough one and you're free!
What does stenography have to do with software? Didn't they become extinct millions of years ago?
I'm glad to see that the EU has broken the U.S. monopoly on wacky, mindless computer lawsuits!
I sure am glad I live here in the USA where my right to expose the weaknesses of corporate products is enshrined in our beloved Constitut...
Hold on, there's a SWAT team banging on my door.
I'd better go let them know that they must have the wrong house.
You are in error. No-one is screaming. Thank you for your cooperation.
To move to a sane country. There any left?
Mix the failings of Usenet with the shortcomings of the World Wide Web and the result is slashdot.
We sue first, and then we call you a terrorist.
The French courts would probably back down if you threaten to invade.
Heck I'll help. I could use a spare country.
I have no
+100 Points to the first one to create a "Free Frenchy" sticker for this.
Bonus points if they substitute "Freedom" for French and some bad pun about not hoping he fries or whatnot.
Alternatively, mail a picture of a rifle to the French government. that will make them back down.
Nah... they'll just draw a line on the ground and politely ask you not to cross it, or go around it.
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...because the sun might sue.
Libel is a favorite pasttime of the French. It's their only weapon of defense.
... when the intrepid crime-fighters in the US DOJ sue the EU for patent infringement to proect their monopoly.
Auto-reply to ACs: "Truly, you have a dizzying intellect."
Maybe try stamp collecting.
maybe they fulfill their claim by executing the following commands
deltree C:\Program Files\Outlook Express
deltree C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer
deltree C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office
ohh ohhh a quotation contest!
/got nuthin
"Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills?"
Kahlil Gibran
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Robert Francis Kenedy
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Unfortunately, it appears that expertise in French law is lacking here at slashdot.
You must be new here. On Slashdot, everyone is a legal expert in everything.
Computer security can be increased by the following methods:
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1) Deny the flaw exists
2) Sue the person who discovered the flaw under the DMCA or something similar in your locale
3) Blame "hax0rs" who write tools like diff
4) "Donate" to campagin funds of elected officals who pass laws that make security research a federal crime
Not an all inclusive list, but it should be a good start for your security minded company or
Yes you are right. National stereotypes are clearly the way forward.
This is exactly how Kirk and Spock killed all those evil computers like Nomad and Landrew.
1/ Call France 3, TF1 if you can.
2/ Attack the company for "Publicite mensongere" (you Grammar Nazis translate for yourselfs, the guy is french...), bringing with you the proofs you digged out.
2bis/ Attack them for "tentative d'intimidation", and another one with Libel (atteinte a l'honneur)
3/ ???
4/ Profit!
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I have no sympathy for terrorists. I'm glad this company is protecting us.
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My Greasemonkey scripts for Digg &
Mon conseil:
- marrie toi a une americaine
- prends la citoyennete US
- ne retourne jamais en France
(ou la meme chose avec une Canadienne si tu aimes la neige).
there's no place like ~
Why did they have to call them "Type I" and "Type II"? Don't they know that some of us have trouble remembering arbitrary binary pairs? (I still can't remember if cations are positive or negative -- electrons are repelled by cathodes, and I think cathodes attract cations (although I could be wrong on that), so are cations positively charged? Google says yes! Yay! It's a breakthrough!)
:^)
Anyway, is type I false positive (w/r/t the null hypothesis) and type II false negative? Google says yes! Yay! Another breakthrough! Or, at least, another type I error.
> marrie toi a une americaine
I thought you were trying to make this guy feel better?
What's he going to do, chance his place of birth to "Freedom"?
Norman Cook's Ode to Sl
..the loser in the next world war has to keep France.
Hey - maybe we say the French gubmnet is supporting al Quida and use this as an excuse to invade and set up a puppet government.
Wait. Nevermind. I guess we can see it already has one.
Cruising the internet on my TI-99/4A @ a whopping 300 baud!
damn, and i thought france was supposed to be perfect? guess not.
Because we all know this could never have happened in the U.S.
-- Repeat with me: "There is no right to profits".
Here, read it in french (his native language) and see if it flows better.