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Written by Florian Neumann :verified: on 2024-02-19 at 11:45

In Germany, you are condemned as a "hacker" if you take the plain text password from the binary file. Well - this should raise interesting liability issues in the case of inadequately protected data in software.

(german) https://www.justiz.nrw/nrwe/lgs/aachen/ag_juelich/j2024/17_Cs_230_Js_99_21_55_23_Urteil_20240117.html

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Written by Julia on 2024-02-19 at 12:11

@floriann @leah His big mistake was telling his buddy about this.

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Written by Florian Neumann :verified: on 2024-02-19 at 12:17

@julia the whole thing turned into the wrong direction when it was publicly disclosed unresponsibly.

But the decision to declare reading a cleartext password from a binary as "hacking" should take all obligation from software vendors to protect sensitive data like passwords.

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