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Comment by toomuchtodo

A lawyer in India sent a cease and desist email to a developer (in, I'm assuming, India) for posting javascript that's being used as an injection attack (for a mobile network provider) against insecure http requests, under the guise of "service enhancement".

https://github.com/thejeshgn/airtel-3g-script-injection

"The said code is closed source software and our client is sole proprietor of the same. Therefore, no one can use the said code without obtaining license from our client against payment of fees and/or royalties and on commercial and legal terms acceptable to our client. Your aforementioned actions constitute a blatant violation of our client's copyrights and other proprietary rights in the said code."

parent toomuchtodo 11 years ago

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