David Woodhouse wrote:
On Mon, 2007-06-18 at 18:41 +0100, vijay chopra wrote:
Sure I will, you can't copyright a number, and I'd like to see anyone
try and sue me for posing one.
We digress.... but I'm dubious about that argument. You can represent
_anything_ with 'just a number'. I could buy a DVD, decrypt it and send
the entire thing to this list in hex form, calling it 'just a number'.
Would that make it OK?
Context.
Grepping a compressed backup of my personal photo archive and coming across that
number vs a reply quoting just the text 'ACSS decryption code?'
One is not illegal, the other has a high chance of being found to contravene
some law or other in certain totalitarian regimes ;)
It's not about the number per se, it's about the information.
Incidentally, who thinks the law should allow protection of this type of
information beyond "trade secret" - if an organisation is dumb enough to expose
it's PKI keys then they deserve no legal protection. However if someone breaks
into a company HQ and steals a trade secret then they should be allowed to
prosecute them for theft of a trade secret.
David
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