on 10/4/01 4:15 PM, Jamie Pruden at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm not going to comment on this except to say that nothing would have > happened to this dude if the company that he worked for did not sell the > cracker for a profit. I guess the EFF forgot to say that Adobe went to > the company and asked them to stop selling the product. Or that the > company told Adobe to go pound sand. Or that Adobe asked the DOJ to ask > the company to stop selling the product... I guess you can believe what > you'd like to believe...
No... You make it sound like this was a guy working in his basement at his home. I could look up the links to the various stories, but no one is reporting it the way you're saying. The company the guy works for makes a piece of software which lets you access parts of adobe's pdf documents (like 25%?) via a flaw in adobe's encryption technology which adobe has been touting to publishers as being very secure for the e-book market. It is not a tool to just get stuff for free, the software was sold and marketed to developers and people in his field. His company is in russia, and violated NONE of his countries laws (actually adobe's software would be illegal there because of fair-use issues). Adobe got pissed, as it was about the time that some publishers had backed away from going with pdf for their books, and sicked the DOJ on his company. He was at a convention in las vegas and gave a talk on the inherent insecurities in adobe's copy-protection of their software, and yes sold their tool. Adobe really stuck the DOJ on him, and the FBI arrested him at his hotel and he was stuck in jail for months while they questioned him. His COMPANY made the software, not him. Yes I believe he was the main programmer... The PR backlash from this was extremely severe for adobe. People were doing demonstrations in something like 13 cities (even outside of adobe), made a lot of papers... It got to the point where adobe actually asked the FBI to let him go. No deal, the machinery was already in motion. I believe he is out on bail now, and stuck in california awaiting trial. He has his wife and 3 children in russia who haven't seen their father in MONTHS all because he did something that was completely legal in his country, and unfortunately showed that adobe wasn't being very honest in their claims of their products' security. >> *sighs* ~trust no one. > > Why? Do you really think there is a conspiracy behind everything? Should > I hate Apple because my installer breaks under OS X and, damn it, that > they did it on purpose? > > Some people... Yes, some people have no understanding of sarcasm. My comment had to deal with all the strange stuff going on with the FBI wiretapping things, and carnivore... Hence, the catch phrase from "The x-files", "trust no one". *bleah* -- Michael Bryan Bell http://homepage.mac.com/michael_bell/ -- G-List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- We have Apple Refurbished Monitors in stock! | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-List list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml> Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Macintosh? Get free email and more at Applelinks! <http://www.applelinks.com>
