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Are developers stealing code?
Talkback It is problematic that source code is not always the final form of a software.
[June 3, 2004, 16:44]
Man charged with stealing AltaVista code
Talkback Phew! For a second there I thought it said astalavista :-)
[July 13, 2004, 21:09]
Are developers stealing code?
Talkback The questions were multiple choice, and often all of the choices could be interpretted to mean that I supported code theft. In ignoring the possibilty the open source and other software can often be legally incorporated into many development...
[June 4, 2004, 5:50]
Are developers stealing code?
Talkback If you copy the look feel etc of a program then you may infringe but if you need to perform a task and you have working code that does it, use it. As the programs are actually compiled before running the copyright surely will then lay with the...
[June 4, 2004, 11:26]
Are developers stealing code?
Talkback I am glad Joe used Lower case there. If he had used TRUE in capitals he would have infringed upon a program i wrote in '69 back when we only had capital letters.
[June 4, 2004, 11:34]
Are developers stealing code?
Talkback The survey made no distinction regarding the licencing of code, or the terms underwhich code had previously been written, and again made me llook like a blatant code thief. The entire questions were written with the mindset that code belongs to an...
[June 4, 2004, 16:25]
Are developers stealing code?
Talkback dont use this code, it's stolen! if( flag==true )
[June 4, 2004, 10:40]
Are developers stealing code?
Talkback Once as part of a small conxultancy doing contracting to pay the rent, we openly offered some code we'd developed in-house to speed up one of our contracting projects. We decided not to delete all the stolen code, but were tempted.
[June 4, 2004, 18:01]
Are developers stealing code?
Talkback its worse than that I could have patented the construct if (flag==true) back in 1955 in which case you'd all owe me money!
[June 9, 2004, 22:04]
Are developers stealing code?
News Most software developers regard 'code-borrowing' -- reusing existing software in their own work -- as an acceptable practice, despite the legal minefield it could create for their employers, says research due to be published later this week.
[June 3, 2004, 10:55]
Bug hunters find 'cookie' hole in IE
News A user would have to be coaxed into clicking on a button or a link that would activate the cookie-stealing code. Computer bug-hunters have pointed out a way to snare personal information from a "cookie" file if the victim uses Microsoft Internet...
[May 12, 2000, 8:39]
McAfee: Malware scam using Google developer site
News Google's free code-hosting website for developers is being used to distribute malware, a security researcher said on Friday. Google Code is a place where programmers can host projects and code. Along with the legitimate code are links to fake...
[January 12, 2009, 8:02]
VA Linux acknowledges hack
News The projects hosted by the site are open source, so "stealing" the code makes little difference. SourceForge is a network of sites that hosts more than 21,000 open-source development projects, giving developers the tools necessary to update...
[May 30, 2001, 9:22]
US software 'blew up Russian gas pipeline'
News Exactly one year ago, China officials announced that the country had signed a pact with Microsoft that would give them access to the highly protected Windows operating system source code. Microsoft chairman Bill Gates hinted at the time that China...
[March 1, 2004, 14:10]
Hackers Rule OK
News Alan Turing and other cryptanalyts apply the scientist's theory of The Universal Turing Machine at the Government Code and Cipher School (GC&CS) at Bletchley Park to crack the German military's legendary Enigma code.
[December 27, 1999, 6:05]
Arrests made over 'Half-Life 2' code theft
News Game developer Valve Software announced on Thursday that law enforcement authorities have arrested several suspects for allegedly stealing source code for the highly anticipated game "Half-Life 2. Newell confirmed in October that hackers had broken...
[June 11, 2004, 8:35]
Brit arrested over Cisco code theft
News Police have arrested a man suspected of stealing source code from Cisco Systems in May, a spokeswoman for Scotland Yard confirmed on Friday. The theft became public in May, when it was discovered that almost 800MB of Cisco's Internetwork Operating...
[September 20, 2004, 7:55]
Website-based malware hits all-time high
News The number of URLs with hidden code for stealing passwords nearly tripled between July 2007 and July 2008, to a record high of 9,529, while the number of malicious-application variants hit a high of 442 in May, the APWG reported in its quarterly...
[December 11, 2008, 13:50]
One Year Ago: Symantec says McAfee stole its code
News War has broken out in the anti-virus software community again with Symantec accusing rival McAfee Associates of stealing its code. The suit alleges that McAfee's PC Medic data rescue software contains identical code to Symantec's CrashGuard which...
[April 24, 1998, 5:00]
USB devices offer an old-school way to steal data review
Reviews With their faux USB device in hand, the researchers demonstrated how they could attach it to a Windows XP machine and force a Kernel Heap buffer overflow, which would then allow the machine to run their malicious code.
[August 22, 2005, 11:05]
