A cybersecurity professional presented research at Black Hat about how his algorithm was co-opted by at least three separate companies.
how reverse engineering—the process by which a program is taken apart and reconstructed—can reveal evidence of such theft.has declined to identify the companies that stole his code. This isn’t about revenge, he says. It’s about identifying a “systemic issue” affecting “the cybersecurity community,” he said. To do that, Wardle used this week’s talk to outline some lessons he had learned while attempting to notify companies about the theft issue.
uh, gray.’ In the EU, there is a directive that if you...[do that] that’s illegal. But also just the optics are bad. I run a non-profit. You’re essentially stealing from a non-profit and putting this in your commercial code and then profiting from it. Bad look,” he says, chuckling. The responses Wardle got were often mixed. “It depends on the company,” he said. “Some are great: I get an email from the CEO admitting it and asking, ‘What can we fix?’ Awesome...[With] others, it’s a three-week internal investigation,
and then they come back and tell you to take a hike because they don’t see any internal consistencies.” In those cases, Wardle hasWhy does this sort of thing even happen in the first place? Wardle says his views have shifted over time. “I went in thinking these were evil corporations out to squash the independent developer. But in every case, it was essentially a misguided or naive developer who had been tasked with [finding a way to] monitor the mic and the webcam...and then he or she would reverse engineer my tool and steal the algorithm...
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