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エクスプロイトコードの公開は犯罪か--法的責任を問われる研究者

著作権法で訴えられるとは意外、でもないか(笑)。にしても違反って言われたコードをどうやって入手したんだろうかなあ?
っていうかこの記事、翻訳は半分だけだなあ(苦笑)。原文にゃあ続きがあって、研究者が、

"To use an analogy, it's a little bit as if Ford was selling cars with defective brakes. If I realized that there was a problem, opened the hood and took a few pictures to prove it, and published everything on my Web site, then Ford could file a complaint against me," added Tena.

ってなこと言ってるらしい。ちょっと強引な気はするけど、たとえとしてはふさわしいのかな。それよかオーストラリアではこんな告訴自体考えられない、というコメントも出てますね。

"We have strong copyright protection as well as strong anti-hacking laws, but from what I can glean from the translations, all that Guillermito did was to publish the details of the parts of the code which contained serious bugs that made the software erroneously treat as a virus some legitimate software," Argy said.

判決は3月8日に出るそうで。注目しなきゃですね。