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    1 year ago

    A court in Germany has recently decided that reading the code of a software you legally purchased and finding plain text passwords there is illegal hacking.

    The person was hired to do a security audit (by a third party) and disclosed the finding to the software developer, not even to his own employer.

    The developer decided to sue him instead of fixing the problem.

    At this point I have lost all trust in the technological capacities of judges out there.