Security Firm Keeper Sues News Reporter Over Vulnerability Story (zdnet.com)

Posted by msmash on Thursday December 21, 2017 @03:20AM from the when-in-a-hole,-stop-digging dept.

Zack Whittaker, writing for ZDNet: Keeper, a password manager software maker, has filed a lawsuit against a news reporter and its publication after a story was posted reporting a vulnerability disclosure. Dan Goodin, security editor at Ars Technica, was named defendant in a suit filed Tuesday by Chicago-based Keeper Security, which accused Goodin of "false and misleading statements" about the company's password manager. Goodin's story, posted December 15, cited Google security researcher Tavis Ormandy, who said in a vulnerability disclosure report he posted a day earlier that a security flaw in Keeper allowed "any website to steal any password" through the password manager's browser extension.

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Just for Aurgument's Sake by sycodon · 2017-12-21 03:37 · Score: -1, Flamebait

What if this reporter included the code to someone's Garage Door Keypad.
Is that protected speech?
What if it was the code to gain entry into a government facility?
Protected?

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