HP invokes DMCA to quash bug report
Hewlett Packard has threatened to use computer crime laws and the controversial Digital Millennium Copyright Act to muzzle a group of security researchers who unearthed a flaw with its Tru64 operating system.
The threat comes in a letter to SnoSoft from HP Veep Kent Ferson warning that the security researchers "could be fined up to $500,000 and imprisoned for up to five years" for its role in publishing code that demonstrated the vulnerability, CNET reports. [The Register]
Nice move HP! Nothing like a company trying to cover it's tracks with the hammer known as the DMCA. This is exactly why the DMCA needs to be revoked. A fine example of how both copyright and patent laws have become lawyer abused toys...mj
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