Students in Malta charged with breaking "security"

Three students in Malta and their instructor have been charged with the crime of breaking "security". They found vulnerabilities in an app (surely nonfree) and reported them to its developer after verifying they were real vulnerabilities.

I don't know any other facts about the app, but I expect it would be malware. It follows that the app harms the computing security of students who use it much more than these students did to the app.

Reporting bugs in a program helps the program's developers. If the developers treat you decently, which includes respecting your freedom, such cooperation is the right thing for users to do. But if the developers thinks "security" means keeping users firmly under the developers' power, they deserve punishment rather than help.

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