A group of tech companies, including:
- Microsoft
- + 50 academics, researchers, cybersecurity experts and technologists
are asking Georgia Governor Deal to veto a bill that makes unauthorized cyber access a crime punishable with up to 1 year in jail because the bill will:
- chill security research
- harm the state’s cybersecurity industry
- Why is that a big deal? Because the bill for the first time would “create new liabilities for security researchers who identify and disclose weaknesses…