This trial might be a good thing ultimately to set good laws. Similar to the times they tried to sue tobacco companies and gun manufacturers for the deaths of people. Those cases rightfully died in court and set precedents to block future wasteful cases.
Even using the gun analogy this wasn't even selling a full gun just a part of one - as this tool is useless in isolation in terms of hacking - and probably one of the easiest parts of hacking. Getting access is typically the expensive risky part.
There's a far better case against zero days being sold but even that has plenty of legitimate use cases for red teaming. But it's still closer to selling loaded guns and needs to be carefully sold, not so much with this case, just from a social good perspective not even regulations (which I think are a bad idea, such as the one regulating zero days in europe).
It's just too bad this guy has to go through hell for this cause. Hopefully he sets up a legal donation page to get the best team he can. Gun/tobacco companies typically have legal teams. This is just a small time ISV, so this still makes me very upset it's being done to such a vulnerable person, which could very likely create bad laws.
Even using the gun analogy this wasn't even selling a full gun just a part of one - as this tool is useless in isolation in terms of hacking - and probably one of the easiest parts of hacking. Getting access is typically the expensive risky part.
There's a far better case against zero days being sold but even that has plenty of legitimate use cases for red teaming. But it's still closer to selling loaded guns and needs to be carefully sold, not so much with this case, just from a social good perspective not even regulations (which I think are a bad idea, such as the one regulating zero days in europe).
It's just too bad this guy has to go through hell for this cause. Hopefully he sets up a legal donation page to get the best team he can. Gun/tobacco companies typically have legal teams. This is just a small time ISV, so this still makes me very upset it's being done to such a vulnerable person, which could very likely create bad laws.