Comments on: Donations Flood in for Guilty Security Researcher Guillaume Tena http://www.darknet.org.uk/2006/03/donations-flood-in-for-guilty-security-researcher-guillaume-tena/ Ethical Hacking, Penetration Testing & Computer Security Tue, 14 Feb 2012 00:17:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: doper http://www.darknet.org.uk/2006/03/donations-flood-in-for-guilty-security-researcher-guillaume-tena/#comment-37975 doper Thu, 14 Dec 2006 19:03:51 +0000 http://www.darknet.org.uk/2006/03/donations-flood-in-for-guilty-security-researcher-guillaume-tena/#comment-37975 " a few politicians fail to understand technology" Politicians have nothing to do in it. Guillaume Tena (known as Guillermito) was sued by an antivirus company. You' d better say "judges fail to understand technology", which is, here, rather true. "Not totaly sure how they got him for copy right, he didn’t copy any thing, or try to sell a “patched” version." He didn't sell anything, indeed, but he used cracked version, only for test (there's no shareware version of this rather expensive AV) + one legal version gave by a ex-costumer, but he wasn't sued for that. I mean, this was abandoned, anyway. He was condemned because he put some "proof of concept", on his site. In theses POC, there was 65 bytes of the AV code : this is like 1/1000000 of the whole AV, but it was enough, as it appears, to condemn him. If you know french, you can read his analysis here : http://web.archive.org/web/20030404161138/www.pipo.com/guillermito/viguard/index.html That's interesting. ” a few politicians fail to understand technology”
Politicians have nothing to do in it. Guillaume Tena (known as Guillermito) was sued by an antivirus company. You’ d better say “judges fail to understand technology”, which is, here, rather true.
“Not totaly sure how they got him for copy right, he didn’t copy any thing, or try to sell a “patched” version.”
He didn’t sell anything, indeed, but he used cracked version, only for test (there’s no shareware version of this rather expensive AV) + one legal version gave by a ex-costumer, but he wasn’t sued for that. I mean, this was abandoned, anyway. He was condemned because he put some “proof of concept”, on his site. In theses POC, there was 65 bytes of the AV code : this is like 1/1000000 of the whole AV, but it was enough, as it appears, to condemn him.

If you know french, you can read his analysis here : http://web.archive.org/web/20030404161138/www.pipo.com/guillermito/viguard/index.html
That’s interesting.

]]> By: Security Researchers Afraid to Reveal Vulnerabilities » http://www.darknet.org.uk/2006/03/donations-flood-in-for-guilty-security-researcher-guillaume-tena/#comment-1793 Security Researchers Afraid to Reveal Vulnerabilities » Wed, 24 May 2006 09:38:33 +0000 http://www.darknet.org.uk/2006/03/donations-flood-in-for-guilty-security-researcher-guillaume-tena/#comment-1793 [...] Well it happened a while back, remember? The French researcher Guillaume Tena who got in trouble for breaching French copywrite laws by decompiling some software. [...] [...] Well it happened a while back, remember? The French researcher Guillaume Tena who got in trouble for breaching French copywrite laws by decompiling some software. [...]

]]> By: Haydies http://www.darknet.org.uk/2006/03/donations-flood-in-for-guilty-security-researcher-guillaume-tena/#comment-136 Haydies Wed, 15 Mar 2006 13:15:58 +0000 http://www.darknet.org.uk/2006/03/donations-flood-in-for-guilty-security-researcher-guillaume-tena/#comment-136 Not totaly sure how they got him for copy right, he didn't copy any thing, or try to sell a "patched" version. Its not even like what comes out of a decompiler is any thing like what went in to the compiler. But then its france, so what do you expect? Not totaly sure how they got him for copy right, he didn’t copy any thing, or try to sell a “patched” version. Its not even like what comes out of a decompiler is any thing like what went in to the compiler.

But then its france, so what do you expect?

]]> By: Navaho Gunleg http://www.darknet.org.uk/2006/03/donations-flood-in-for-guilty-security-researcher-guillaume-tena/#comment-95 Navaho Gunleg Mon, 13 Mar 2006 10:47:39 +0000 http://www.darknet.org.uk/2006/03/donations-flood-in-for-guilty-security-researcher-guillaume-tena/#comment-95 Effing unbelievable where this is all heading. Simply because a few politicians fail to understand technology, these kinds of laws will definitely only make the future <em>more</em> and more insecure.... Effing unbelievable where this is all heading.

Simply because a few politicians fail to understand technology, these kinds of laws will definitely only make the future more and more insecure….

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