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How not to react to a security vulnerability 101

Another software company's claims of quality and security have been debunked by a part time security researcher (he's a biologist at Harvard.)

Instead of dealing the problem by fixing the vulnerability or providing a technical response to the claim (like most large and grown up software companies,) Tegam has decided to sue the offending researcher.

Observe as this incident turns into another a text book case on turning a software flaw into a bonafide PR disaster.