Disclosing Software Vulnerabilities

Internet Security: Hacking, Counterhacking and Society, pp. 255-268, 2006

15 Pages Posted: 21 Dec 2006

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Abstract

Information can cause harm. A person may defame or defraud another. A person may use information offered to her by another on how to kill a person and kill, in fact, a person. A person may kill herself upon learning that she has a terrible cancer. A kid may be exposed to illegal pornographic material. A textbook may contain dangerously inaccurate technical instructions or allegations. A label on a Tshirt should have included the word 'flammable' but did not. A computer virus may cause millions of dollars damage. This is a very short list of examples: information, which has so many facets, transmission channels and meanings, has an equally diverse potential of causing very different kinds of damage.

Suggested Citation

Canellopoulou-Bottis, Maria, Disclosing Software Vulnerabilities. Internet Security: Hacking, Counterhacking and Society, pp. 255-268, 2006, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=952955

Maria Canellopoulou-Bottis (Contact Author)

Information Law, DALMS, Ionian University ( email )

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