Thank you both Larry and Pat for these senate URLs and addresses.
"One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is
that you end up being governed by your inferiors." -Plato
Cory
On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 11:19:21PM -0700, Patrick R. Wade wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 10:57:12PM -0700, larry a price wrote:
> >
> >
> >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)
> >
>
> 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:
> >
> >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
>
> >
> >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
> --
> A full height 19" rack with a glass door looks very out of place
> when it's all alone. Sort of like a perverted shrine to the
> God of Blinkenlights.
> - Pim van Riezen, in the Monastery
