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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."
Can't you just hax0r the courts computers and remove all instances of your name? Maybe replace it with bill Gates or something?
Alternatively, mail a picture of a rifle to the French government. that will make them back down.
You better do this with Linux apps, we will thank you for it instead of sue your ass.
Leave the incompetent crap for incompetents, might be what you have learned from this.
Try attacking every country that looks like they could become a treath, and support a terrorist nation when you're at it.
(Just an imaginary example)
That should keep you relatively friendfree.
The system had the verbosity of HTML combined with all the readability of compiled assembly viewed as bitmap images
Yeah...or what about calling him a coward?
I keep seeing things about him being French...
Who the hell let you look at the constitution?!!! That's classified!
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
I find it impossible to believe that the author of these documents is employed at either Harvard or Mass. These are incredibly competitive institutions; they would NOT bring onboard someone with that kind of spelling and grammar. Someone want to call the Harvard Bio department and make some inquiries?
So quit your job, pack your bags, and move on out to snow country!
Forget Norway!
More like Snorway!
Note to the clueless: Norway does not have lions and tigers.
graspee
Bottom line: The guy PUBLISHED executable exploits. He didnt just go out on his site and say, "You could do so and so..." He DID go out and distributed a working exploit... Nothing educational about that... He should get the maximum penalty. I cannot think of one case where someone found a bug, reported it to the company, posted about it, and got in trouble...
--Ryan