HP sues for pointing out a bug

http://news.com.com/2100-1023-947325.html

Security warning draws DMCA threat

By Declan McCullagh
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
July 30, 2002, 4:48 PM PT

WASHINGTON--Hewlett Packard has found a new club to use to pound researchers who unearth flaws in the company's software: the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
Invoking both the controversial 1998 DMCA and computer crime laws, HP has threatened to sue a team of researchers who publicized a vulnerability in the company's Tru64 Unix operating system.

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Please, you dumb clucks in Dee Cee, could you think before you pass laws written by your paymasters, and maybe consider the consequences?

John Starrett