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Programmer arrested for Defcon talk?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Perry E. Metzger)
Tue Jul 17 12:40:33 2001
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@wasabisystems.com>
To: cryptography@wasabisystems.com
Date: 17 Jul 2001 12:40:29 -0400
Message-ID: <87lmln7blu.fsf@snark.piermont.com>
According to slashdot (http://www.slashdot.org/) a programmer was
arrested for (apparently -- details on the cited web sites are
sketchy) giving a talk at Defcon in Las Vegas describing how to break
the encryption in certain Adobe PDF files. It is (apparently) claimed
by Adobe that this was a violation of the DMCA.
See:
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/07/17/130226&mode=thread
I'm not a big fan of /. -- they aren't particularly good at the whole
fact checking thing -- but the story sounds intriguing. The real
details may very well be quite different from what is portrayed. If
anyone knows real details, I'd appreciate them.
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