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Hacker Indicted In France For Publishing Exploits

Posted by timothy on from the known-and-unknown-is-high-flimflammery dept.

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."

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  1. France == better than America! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    God Bless America

    God Bless America, with the worst crime levels in the first world
    God Bless America, where "democracy" means a rich, white male as President
    God Bless America, the biggest consumer of the world's natural resources
    God Bless America, so happy to violate international laws
    God Bless America, where "freedom of speech" means race-hate groups like KKK
    God Bless America, and its massive and ever-growing poverty gap
    God Bless America, with barely 300 years of dire history and culture
    God Bless America, all its appalling "sitcoms" with no grasp of irony
    God Bless America, with the highest obesity levels in the developed world
    God Bless America, because corporations should be allowed to run amok
    God Bless America, wasting billions to attack foreign countries

    God Bless America, and thank God I don't have to live there.

    -

    1. Re:France == better than America! by MillionthMonkey · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Billions of barrels of free, high-quality oil and thousands of dead Muslims as a bonus? How can you possibly call that a "waste?" I'd say it was worth every penny.

      The oil infrastructure is a mess and is not producing oil to pay for the invasion as was promised. Saddam Hussein is commonly blamed for this state of affairs, but seriously, if you're going to make a major long-term investment in a country by invading it, you should at least kick the tires first to see if 20 years of sanctions and corruption have affected its ability to produce oil. No due diligence was done on Iraq before the invasion, and as an oil producer it has turned out to be a lemon.

      Your "thousands of dead Muslims as a bonus" comment needs no response- it speaks volumes about you. Figures you would post AC, you pussy.

      The only screw-up Bush made in Iraq was waiting so long to get started.

      I wish he'd waited longer, since it's been costing us one billion dollars per week. Why not just do a targeted assassination, or a snatch, which would have been cheaper? Now we're saddled with rebuilding a country where they drag our dead bodies through the streets.

    2. Re:France == better than America! by YrWrstNtmr · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Richard Clarke is telling the truth.

      Which truth?

      [August 2002]
      "So, point five, that process which was initiated in the first week in February, uh, decided in principle, uh in the spring to add to the existing Clinton strategy and to increase CIA resources, for example, for covert action, five-fold, to go after Al Qaeda."

      or

      [60 Minutes, March 2004] "Clarke was the president's chief adviser on terrorism, yet it wasn't until Sept. 11 that he ever got to brief Mr. Bush on the subject. Clarke says that prior to Sept. 11, the administration didn't take the threat seriously."

  2. FP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    FP

  3. Question: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Do they have 'Freedom Fries' in France?

  4. Re:And I thought the DMCA was bad ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Fuck-Off you shit-monkey

  5. Re:My bank robbing spree by jhunsake · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Nice job on throwing out a quick, sarcastic response that has no relation to this guy's situation at all.

    You, sir, are a jackass.

  6. than vs then by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    First the company called me a 'terrorist,' than sued me

    Why do people always mix than and then together as if they are the same word. I always hear people writing stuff (with otherwise perfect grammer and spelling) like "better then" and now they are doing it in reverse? What is this world comming to?

  7. Re:In America it's totally different by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    But in soviet russia, terrorist calls you!

  8. stupid grammar nazi by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    If you're going to be criticizing other people's grammar, at least get your own correct.

    comming

    Stupid idiot.

  9. Re:My bank robbing spree by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Fuck you, mods!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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    Today I walked down the sidewalk. Oh and fuck you.

  10. Re:Proposterous! by Another+MacHack · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    "From the viewpoint of a Jesuit priest I am, of course, and have always been an atheist.... I have repeatedly said that in my opinion the idea of a personal God is a childlike one. You may call me an agnostic, but I do not share the crusading spirit of the professional atheist whose fervor is mostly due to a painful act of liberation from the fetters of religious indoctrination received in youth. I prefer an attitude of humility corresponding to the weakness of our intellectual understanding of nature and of our being." -- Einstein

  11. Re:Other side? by FroMan · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!

    This is \. where anything American is EVIL! Forget about a fair shake, crucify the American government!

    Actually, I am quite surprised that this even was posted though. Certainly not by michael, but his mini-michael (timothy) actually posted it.

    Truth to tell though, I do not know who to laugh at more with this article as atleast \. is being internally consistant here, or you (I don't know who you are) insisting that the French government may actaully be right.

    --
    Norris/Palin 2012
    Fact: We deserve leaders who can kick your ass and field dress your carcass.
  12. In soviet russia... by oldosadmin · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    COMPUTERS sue YOU!

    --
    Jay | http://oldos.org
  13. Translation by SeanDuggan · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Why would you want to acquire a US citizenship? There are not no other country in the world wherein one detests citizens. {Maybe "There is no other country which more detests its citizens?"} One has a crazy government with a president who wasn't elected and who serves rich people and their companies. More and more, they remove the rights of the citizens with the aid of the Supreme Court, which is also controlled by the president and his Neo-conservative allies.

    Better to go to Canada, which is a million times more sensible than the US.
    (My apologies for the errors... I speak French but it is not my mother tongue. I enjoy trying to speak it from time to time)
    Doesn't anyone know how to use Babelfish anymore?

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    This sig has absolutely no significance and serves only to take up screen space and waste the time of the reader.