---
id: 4059
title: "Our Position on the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) and the Need to Safeguard Tools for Responsible Security Researchers"
source_domain: bishopfox.com
source_url: "https://bishopfox.com/blog/position-digital-millennium-copyright-act-dmca"
published_at: "2021-06-23T00:00:00Z"
tags: ["reverse-engineering", "security-research", "policy", "legislation", "dmca", "eff"]
phying_url: "https://phying.com/item/4059"
lang: en
---

# Our Position on the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) and the Need to Safeguard Tools for Responsible Security Researchers

## Summary

Bishop Fox joins peers in cautioning against DMCA Section 1201: broad anti-circumvention language can criminalize good-faith security research and let vendors block inspection and reverse engineering.

## Intelligence Metadata

- **Sources:** bishopfox.com
- **Published:** 2021-06-23T00:00:00Z
- **Original:** https://bishopfox.com/blog/position-digital-millennium-copyright-act-dmca
- **Phying News:** https://phying.com/item/4059