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Breach case could curtail Web flaw finders
Robert Lemos, SecurityFocus 2006-04-26

Security researchers and legal experts have voiced concern this week over the prosecution of an information-technology professional for computer intrusion after he allegedly breached a university's online application system while researching a flaw without the school's permission.

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Breach case could curtail Web flaw finders 2006-05-11
Anonymous
I would like to amend that if you are poking around a product that *you* purchased this should definitely be perfectly legal (instead we have the DMCA). This is the equivalent of some schister selling poor alloy locks that can be broken with a crobar and then facing criminal charges because you b...

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