One sign: The administration earlier this year rescinded a Bush-era executive order requiring federal contractors to notify workers of their rights under Beck.

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But in cases where researchers notify companies and offer to cooperate in order to solve security problems, a smarter approach to fixing those flaws has largely prevailed: Ed Felten, for instance, a Princeton researcher, faced legal threats in 2003 when he and colleagues exposed security vulnerabilities in Diebold voting machines.

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