Forwarded from: "Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah" <rslade@private> Cc: computerforensicsworld@private, Seclegal@private Date sent: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 00:44:38 -0600 (CST) From: InfoSec News <isn@private> > http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/security/0,2000061744,39176657,00.htm > > A French security researcher who published exploit codes that could > take advantage of bugs in an anti-virus application, could be > imprisoned for violation of copyright laws. I warned ya. OK, well not quite the same situation, but on page 21 of "Software Forensics" I noted that this type of situation might one day result in a malware author challenging evidence obtained by forensic examination on the basis of the laws supposedly supporting copyright by enveighing against reverse engineering. ====================== (quote inserted randomly by Pegasus Mailer) rslade@private slade@private rslade@private If you surveyed a hundred typical middle-aged Americans, I bet you'd find that only two of them could tell you their blood types, but every last one of them would know the theme song from the Beverly Hillbillies. - Dave Barry http://victoria.tc.ca/techrev or http://sun.soci.niu.edu/~rslade _________________________________________ Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB) Everything is Vulnerable - http://www.osvdb.org/
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