, 2005-08-22
When security researcher and ISS employee Michael Lynn went to give a presentation at the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas, little did he know he would ignite a legal firestorm questioning whether even the act of looking for security vulnerabilities violates the law.
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This means that if you find a vulnerability that can harm a company (and as a matter of fact, every vulnerability does) you're screwed.
This law was named "law for a trustworthy digital economy". No need to say that the security of consumers was not the main concern here.
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