When your classmates threaten you with felony charges
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#3How can you legally threaten someone and not face consequences, but if you threaten someone with physical violence you can go to jail?
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#4> And at the end of their threat they had a demand: don’t ever talk about your findings publicly. Essentially, if you agree to silence, we won’t pursue legal action.
Legally, can this cover talking to e.g. state prosecutors and the police as well? Because claiming to be "100% secure", knowing you are not secure, and your users have no protection against spying from you or any minimally competent hacker, is fraud at minimum, but closer to criminal wiretapping, since you're knowingly tricking your users into revealing their secrets on your service, thinking they are "100% secure".
That this ended "amicably" is frankly a miscarriage of justice - the Fizz team should be facing fraud charges.
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#5> One Friday night, we decided to explore whether Fizz was really “100% secure” like they claimed. Well, dear reader, Fizz was not 100% secure. In fact, they hardly had any security protections at all.
It's practically a given that the actual security (or privacy) of a software is inversely proportional to its claimed security and how loud those claims are. Also, the companies that pay the least attention to security are always the ones who later, after the breach, say "We take security very seriously..."
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#6Crazy story. The Stanford daily article has copies of the lawyer letters back and forth, they are intense - and we wouldn't be able to read them if the EFF didn't step up.
https://stanforddaily.com/2022/11/01/opinion-fizz-previously...
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#8Yet another example of someone security "testing" someone else's servers/systems without permission. That's called hacking. Doesn't matter if you have "good faith" or not. It's not your property and you don't get to access it in ways the owners don't desire you to access it without being subject to potential civil and criminal enforcement against you.
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Heh. That's not very nice. If it feels stilted, that's probably because I wrote this primarily to be spoken. But ChatGPT was not involved.
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I don't think the writing is bad, but even if so, not everyone is good at languages. They got the point across, didn't they?