, 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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Similarly, you're not prevented from analyzing each letter when you buy a book. Just as they're standardized components of words, so too are opcodes standardized components of software.
I think that maybe vendors should employ these people rather than sending the law after them. Why is unsafe soft/firmware such good business in their minds?
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