Publishing security flaws illegal

Written by WiLD

Wednesday, 09 March 2005

News.com reports that a French court has made publishing security flaws illegal.  It seems this legal action goes back to 2001 when Guillaume Tena published information about security flaws in Viguard published by Tegam International. "Tena's actions were not viewed kindly by Tegam, which initiated legal action against the researcher. That action resulted in a case being brought to trial at a court in Paris." "On Tuesday, the French court ruled that Tena should not be imprisoned but gave him a suspended fine of 5,000 euros. This means that he only has to pay the fine if he publishes more information on security vulnerabilities in software." Leave it to the French...

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