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JeuJeus committed Aug 16, 2023
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title: On German Law working against Disclosure [Link in German]
title: On German Law working against Disclosure [Links in German]
description: The public prosecutor's office in Cologne obtains a criminal case against the security researcher in the Modern Solution trial
date: 2023-08-16
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<a href="https://www.heise.de/news/Modern-Solution-Jetzt-doch-Hackerparagraf-Verfahren-gegen-Sicherheitsforscher-9246117.html" target="_blank">Link to related Source [in German]</a>

After some back and forth, Steier is now facing a lawsuit after the public prosecutor's office in Cologne ruled that decompiling the source code _"requires a deep understanding of programming languages and software development"_.
Therefore he is no threated under the so called "Hackerparagraph" (§202 StGb) for _"Spying out data"_.
<a href="https://www.heise.de/news/Modern-Solution-Jetzt-doch-Hackerparagraf-Verfahren-gegen-Sicherheitsforscher-9246117.html" target="_blank">Link to related News Article from Heise [in German]</a>

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