Yesterday France initiated a new information security
administration whose aim is to counter the panoply of
digital threats involving economic espionage, cryptology,
TEMPEST, snooping, PW snarfing, DDoS, Echelon and
a few that are new to me:
http://cryptome.org/dcssi.htm
It recounts a bit
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The site in concern is being mirrored at:
http://pub.anonymizer.com/~johndoe2/cyberpatrol/CP.html
The magic question is...
When they sue me, will I be just another John Doe?
JD, 2d
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I finally took the time to read the whole (very long) web page, and it
is quite interesting -- I wish that all analysis had such detailed
explanations! Any above-average congress-critter should be able to
understand quite a bit of it. ;-)
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Hi,
Here's the URGENT
List:
If you can't cope, sue. The reverse-engineering
argument, that it trespasses on property, was already
used by Microsoft many years ago (ca. 1993) against Stacker.
In short, Stacker (the then market leader for on-the-fly
disk compression software) found out that Microsoft had
pirated its
Ed Gerck wrote:
Thus, what happened here is not new and those that want to
effectively combat "hidden" features, pirated code or covert
weaknesses by decompiling code should be aware of it. The
end, however merit it may have, cannot justify the means.
there is an important difference here.
Tom Vogt wrote:
Ed Gerck wrote:
Thus, what happened here is not new and those that want to
effectively combat "hidden" features, pirated code or covert
weaknesses by decompiling code should be aware of it. The
end, however merit it may have, cannot justify the means.
there is an
Pardon my failing memory, but if memory serves, Microsoft lost that
argument and the court case, and was assessed serious damages, a
couple of hundred million!
Stacker is still a major player, because Microsoft did what they
always do when they are losing -- they "invested in" Stacker. So,
I understand that convicted crypto-criminal Jim Bell -- of US News and
World Report domestic-terrorist-photo fame -- is going to be released from
prison in Phoenix, Arizona in two or four weeks. (He reportedly thinks that
he should have been out already and The Man has cheated him out of time
At 10:54 PM -0500 3/15/00, Duncan Frissell wrote:
At 04:38 PM 3/15/00 -0500, Trei, Peter wrote:
Bill thinks - and I think he may well be right - that we are approaching the
point where a single individual could build a lethal, virulent disease,
or (somewhat later) an unrestricted nanotech
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