On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 10:57:12PM -0700, larry a price wrote:
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>Dmitry Sklyarov is the russian programmer who's being nailed to the wall
>for pointing out that Adobe used pathetically weak encryption in their
>e-book line of supposedly uncopyable digital documents (ok restricted
>access digital documents)
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I gather at least one of the "encrypted ebooks" he cracked was ROT-13'd.
Under the DMCA, the encryptor's intent to obscure the plaintext is all it
takes to make evading the cryptography an illegal tampering with a copyright
protection mechanism.
>You can:
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>sit at your keyboard feeling paranoid, OR use one of the links below to
>send a message to your senator.
>
Paper mail is worth a thousand emails;
>http://www.senate.gov/~gsmith/webform.htm <<<Gordon Smith
Washington, DC Office
404 Russell Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
Phone: (202) 224-3753
Fax: (202) 228-3997
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>http://wyden.senate.gov/mail.htm <<<Ron Wyden
WASHINGTON, DC
516 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
(202) 224-5244
EUGENE
151 West 7th Ave. Suite 435
Eugene, OR 97401
(541) 431-0229
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