McAfee Grabbed Data Without Paying, Says Open Source Vulnerability Database

Posted by timothy on Thursday May 8, 2014 @02:07AM from the but-don't-say-they-didn't-ask dept.

mask.of.sanity (1228908) writes with this excerpt from The Register: "'Intel security subsidiary McAfee may be in hot water after it allegedly scraped thousands of records from the Open Source Vulnerability Database instead of paying for them. The slurp was said to be conducted using fast scripts that rapidly changed the user agent, and was launched after McAfee formally inquired about purchasing a license to the data.' Law experts say the site's copyright could be breached by individuals merely downloading the information in contravention to the site's policies, and did not require the data to be subsequently disseminated."

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Don't see a problem by smooth+wombat · 2014-05-08 02:13 · Score: 0, Troll

It's not real like a car, it's digital. Everyone should have access to it for free.
McAfee did nothing different than what millions of people do every day via TPB.

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We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower