Security researchers have cancelled plans to buy potentially undetected software security vulnerabilities from a notorious group of hackers.The plan involved buying hacking tools offered by the Shadow Brokers and then protecting computers before they could be targeted by cyber-criminals.But critics had argued that the Shadow Brokers should not benefit in this way.One of the researchers behind the plan said the scheme was being abandoned for ”legal reasons”.Some critics had warned that paying the Shadow Brokers for access to their hacking tools, even with honest intentions, could be illegal.
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