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Re: [VulnWatch] Details of Sybase ASE bugs withheld
From: "Peter J. Holzer" <hjp () wsr ac at>
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 10:00:56 +0100
On 2005-03-22 15:38:51 -0500, sean wrote:
Another question, how can one prove that it was found by disassembling the code?
In the EU, reverse engineering is explicitely allowed if it is done to ensure interoperability. (Is an exploit an interoperable program? :-))
What if it were found by brute force testing? I can't imagine that a company would prohibit the user from testing the functionality of a product they sell?
Oracle prohibits their users from publishing performance benchmarks. (Not from doing benchmarks, mind you, just from publishing the results)
A friend of mine told me this sort of legal piracy was commonplace - have there ever been any actual legal proceedings in a similar situation?
It is generally believed (at least here in Europe) that quite a lot of the clauses in a typical licence are against the law and couldn't be upheld before court. Companies probably hope that their customers will comply anyway, either because they don't know their rights or because they cannot afford a lengthy law suit (even if they have good chances of winning). hp -- _ | Peter J. Holzer \Beta means "we're down to fixing misspelled comments in |_|_) | Sysadmin WSR \the source, and you might run into a memory leak if | | | hjp () wsr ac at \you enable embedded haskell as a loadable module and __/ | http://www.hjp.at/ \write your plugins upside-down in lisp". --ae () op5 se
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- RE: [VulnWatch] Details of Sybase ASE bugs withheld Marchand, Tom (Mar 22)
- Re: [VulnWatch] Details of Sybase ASE bugs withheld sean (Mar 22)
- Re: [VulnWatch] Details of Sybase ASE bugs withheld Peter J. Holzer (Mar 23)
- RE: [VulnWatch] Details of Sybase ASE bugs withheld Chris Wysopal (Mar 22)
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- RE: [VulnWatch] Details of Sybase ASE bugs withheld Marchand, Tom (Mar 22)
- Re: [VulnWatch] Details of Sybase ASE bugs withheld Simple Nomad (Mar 23)
- Re: Details of Sybase ASE bugs withheld Jay Libove (Mar 23)
- Re: [VulnWatch] Details of Sybase ASE bugs withheld Simple Nomad (Mar 23)
- RE: [VulnWatch] Details of Sybase ASE bugs withheld http-equiv () excite com (Mar 23)
- Re: [VulnWatch] Details of Sybase ASE bugs withheld sean (Mar 22)