Student Who Found Security Flaws in Police Protocol Gets Suspended Sentence

Re:Student Who Found Security Flaws in Police Protocol Gets ... by jlgaddis on Saturday May 21, 2016 @11:24PM (#11747264)

This is yet another example of how one who practices "responsible disclosure" eventually changes their beliefs and begins to practice "full, anonymous, public disclosure".

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Re:Student Who Found Security Flaws in Police Protocol Gets ... by rtpg on Sunday May 22, 2016 @05:59AM (#11747984)

I think the issue is more that he took this knowledge and tried to listen into encrypted stuff

>Officials also conducted a search of his house a month later, in April 2015. Besides seizing his computer and a $25 custom equipment with which Ornig was able to intercept TETRA communications, officers also found a fake police badge, and also accused him of impersonating a police officer.

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Re:Student Who Found Security Flaws in Police Protocol Gets ... by loup-vaillant on Sunday May 22, 2016 @06:12AM (#11748000)

Proof of concept? The existence of the device demonstrates even to the most ignorant layperson the insecurity of TETRA communications.

As for the fake police badge, I bet this was unrelated —Costume party, BDSM, an old toy…

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