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Security Researcher Faces Jail For Finding Bugs

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the full-enclosure dept.

An anonymous reader writes "French security researcher Guillaume Tena, who is working at Harvard University, faces 4 months in prison after being sued by Tegam for reverse engineering its Viguard antivirus software and publishing exploit codes for a number of vulnerabilities. According to a ZDNet article, he could also be sued by Tegam for 900,000 euros in damages. More details are available (in french) on Guillaume's website and on the K-OTik's website."

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  1. A bad thing? by jedkiwi · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    This is almost as bad as what the NYT did to Adrian Lamo, getting people in shit for trying to help them. What is this world coming to?

  2. Just great by talo · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Now im waiting that when Microsoft attacks against Secunia or some other company. I can't think anything more stupid than this, if someone pointed out failures in my software I would be thanking the guy.

  3. Re:Here we go by fm6 · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    And now we have people getting arrested for pointing out someone else's mistake...
    Really! The most they should have done was label his post "-1, Flamebait".