Security expert Guillaume Tena, who was last week ordered to pay a fine of 14,300 euros for breach of French copyright law after publishing information about security vulnerabilities in an anti-virus application, has already collected around half the money in donations after appealing for help on his Web site.
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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.
Tegam International, the French software developer that is suing a security researcher after he exploited vulnerabilities in the company's Viguard antivirus software, has defended its actions.
A French security researcher, who published exploit codes that could take advantage of bugs in an antivirus application, could be imprisoned for violation of copyright laws.
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