bmitchell wrote:
] Researchers that reverse engineer software to discover
] programming flaws can no longer legally publish their findings
] in France after a court fined a security expert on Tuesday.

From the ISN list:

forwarded from: security curmudgeon jericho@attrition.org

According to reports on other lists, by people who apparently read and speak French better than most American journalists, the court ruling is not about him reverse engineering software and publishing bugs so much as the fact he did it on unlicensed copies of the software. If that is the case, this ruling is more about using pirated software for security research than posting vulnerability information.

RE: Publishing exploit code ruled illegal in france