Reply to post: Re: Well so where's the problem?

FREE zero-day for every reader: AT&T's DirecTV kit has a root hole – and no one wants to patch it

Christian Berger

Re: Well so where's the problem?

"but I'm not aware of any laws anywhere giving an end user the right to root access on computer controlled devices."

Actually the German constitutional court derived the right of "Integrity and secrecy of information processing systems" some years ago. Just because there aren't any explicit laws, doesn't mean you don't have a right.

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