17 USC 1204 (a) In General. - Any person who violates section 1201 or
1202 willfully and for purposes of commercial advantage or private
financial gain -(1) shall be fined not more than $500,000 or imprisoned
for not more than 5 years, or both, for the first offense...
Does this
In message v0421010cb86ca9bc4254@[192.168.0.2], Arnold G. Reinhold writes:
At 9:15 AM -0500 1/16/02, Steve Bellovin wrote:
A couple of months ago, a Wall Street Journal reporter bought two
abandoned al Qaeda computers from a looter in Kabul. Some of the
files on those machines were encrypted.
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Arnhold writes:
Another interesting question is whether the reporters and the Wall Street
Journal have violated the DCMA's criminal provisions. The al Qaeda data
was copyrighted (assuming Afghanistan signed one of the copyright
conventions--they may not have), the encryption is arguably a
At 9:41 AM -0500 1/18/02, Will Rodger wrote:
Arnhold writes:
Another interesting question is whether the reporters and the Wall
Street Journal have violated the DCMA's criminal provisions. The al
Qaeda data was copyrighted (assuming Afghanistan signed one of the
copyright conventions--they
Trei, Peter wrote:
[Moderator's note: It wasn't a direct quote, and I generally assume
reporters misquote people anyway. Also, note that the general
confusion because the UK uses thousand million for the US billion
makes the whole thing even less clearly the expert and not the
reporter.
