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Legal disassembly
Mark Rasch, 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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Legal disassembly 2005-08-23
Coujou
In France, such resarch is prohibited since a few months unless you have a "legitimate reason" to look for vulnerabilities. of course, the notion of "legitimate reason" is hard to define and it is the judge duty to decide if you were acting badly.

This means that if you find a vulnerability that ...

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