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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. FYI by daveschroeder · · Score: 4, Informative

    Just to stave off any rants, this was not US law, a US court, or a US company. He happens to be working "at Harvard" now, but this matter has apparently been taken up in France.

  2. Re:If I break in your car... by dAzED1 · · Score: 3, Informative
    wah wah wah with the same old trite complaint. I'll give the same old trite response: apples, oranges. You own the car. With software, you only own the right to use one instance of it - right to use, not right to do whatever you want. Just like a radio station can't go buy a cd at a store and then play it over the airways - when you buy it at the store, you don't buy the rights to do anything and everything you want with it.

    If you'd like a starter course on property law, someone else will have to give it to you.

    Me, I truly believe information should be free, and only personal information (like, your bank account #'s, passcodes, etc) has any business being private. I'm a big supporter of all our little neo-communist mechanisms in the OSS movement. But really...don't get ownership of a car confused with ownership of software.

  3. The company's position by Beryllium+Sphere(tm) · · Score: 5, Informative

    For anyone interested, just for the sake of presenting both sides, here is the Tegam response.

  4. GOD FUCKING DAMNIT! by Inthewire · · Score: 3, Informative

    Moot.
    Moot point.

    Mute point my chapped ass.
    Words fucking mean things.
    God damn it.
    Fuck.
    Argh.

    Seriously.

    Ick.

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  5. Re:If I break in your car... by AK+Marc · · Score: 4, Informative

    That's a condition of installing/using the software.

    But not a condition of sale, and they won't let you return the software, thus, the EULA is not a legal contract.

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