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 >"technological protection measure" and the breaking was done for financial >gain. That, I think, is an unintended consequence of the law, but I bet there's a lawyer somewhere who'd take a crack at it. More important is the origin of the info. itself: were it peacetime you'd have a pretty clear case of receiving stolen property. Add to that certain trade-secret laws in various of the 50 United States, and you could do a long time in the slammer over this... Will Rodger --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
