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Transforming the Computer Misuse Act 1990 to support vulnerability research? Proposal for a defence for hacking as a strategy in the fight against cybercrime
2018
Journal of Information Rights Policy and Practice
Despite the recent push towards security by design, most softwares and hardwares on the market still include numerous vulnerabilities, i.e. flaws or weaknesses whose discovery and exploitation by criminal hackers compromise the security of the networked and information systems, affecting millions of users, as acknowledged by the 2016 UK Government in its Cybersecurity Strategy.Conversely, when security researchers find and timely disclose vulnerabilities to vendors who supply the IT products or
doi:10.21039/irpandp.v2i2.36
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