Thawing Out the Chilling Effect Of DMCA Section 1201

The Copyright Office has issued the latest rules on exemptions to Section 1201 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act DMCA. Great news: Legal protections for independent security research have once again been meaningfully strengthened. On the whole, these protections are now significantly greate...

Copyright Office Calls For New Cybersecurity Researcher Protections

On Jun. 22, the US Copyright Office released its long-awaited study on Sec. 1201 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act DMCA, and it has important implications for independent cybersecurity researchers. Mostly the news is very positive. Rapid7 advocated extensively for researcher protections to ...

It's Now Legal to Jailbreak Smart TV, Smartphone Or Tablet

In our previous article, The Hacker News reported that the EFF had won its battle over the limits that were put on a car's copyrighted software, allowing car owners to fiddle with their car's software. EFF has participated in the rulemaking procedure held by the United States copyright office DMC...

iPad 3 jailbroken on Launch Day by 3 ways

iPad 3 jailbroken on Launch Day by 3 ways The new Apple iPad third iPad, iPad 3 has already been jailbroken in at least three different ways. On the same day that Apple started shipping the new iPad out to consumers, there were reports that at least one hacker had already jailbroken the latest...