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Course > 6. Vulnerability Discovery and Disclosure > Problems

Felix Freiling on a case of responsible disclosure in a scientific publication

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Felix Freiling is the chairholder of the Department of Computer Science at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU).

His focus is on computer security and forensic computing.

You can find out more about Felix Freiling on his page on the website of FAU.

Questions

At which point did the company send a declaration to cease and desist?

As soon as the researchers approached the company with the vulnerability
After the first unsuccessful attempts to fix the vulnerability
After the vulnerability was fixed but before the paper was published
After the vulnerability was fixed and the paper was published

What was the argument of the lawsuit?

The researchers had no prior approval
Individual researchers were targeted
Reverse engineering and decompilation is illegal

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