Our Interesting Call with CTS-Labs

Re:Our Interesting Call with CTS-Labs by dsacco on Thursday March 15, 2018 @11:52PM (#16598488)

> Am curious if it is legal to fund security research to find flaws in a competitors product.

It’s legal. I’ve been hired to do it before.

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Re:Our Interesting Call with CTS-Labs by dman on Thursday March 15, 2018 @11:57PM (#16598515)

Any restrictions at the time of disclosure?

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Re:Our Interesting Call with CTS-Labs by dsacco on Friday March 16, 2018 @12:29AM (#16598635)

I’m not sure how you mean; in general, I was tasked with finding vulnerabilities that could be used for reverse engineering purposes and which woukdn’t be disclosed.

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Re:Our Interesting Call with CTS-Labs by dman on Friday March 16, 2018 @12:38AM (#16598668)

Ah I meant the legality of funding efforts to find glaring bugs in competitors products and then releasing them publicly as a 0-day.

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