A German court has charged a programmer investigating an IT problem with hacking and fined them €3,000 ($3,265) for what it deemed was unauthorized access to external computer systems and spying on data.
  • Apathy Tree@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    8 months ago

    Well if that isn’t a great way to ensure nobody comes forward when they find major vulnerabilities, idk what is.

    Hope he wins the appeal.

    • xinayder@infosec.pub
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      8 months ago

      The only thing I see they did wrong was to disclose the vulnerability before waiting for a comment from the software company.