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Programmer arrested
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Perry E. Metzger)
Tue Jul 17 13:15:46 2001
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@wasabisystems.com>
To: cryptography@wasabisystems.com
Date: 17 Jul 2001 13:15:41 -0400
Message-ID: <873d7v79z6.fsf@snark.piermont.com>
Several people forwarded this:
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,45298,00.html
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Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 10:57:48 -0400
From: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>
To: politech@politechbot.com
Subject: FC: FBI arrests Russian hacker visiting U.S. for alleged DMCA
breach
Russian Adobe Hacker Busted
By Declan McCullagh (declan@wired.com)
7:04 a.m. July 17, 2001 PDT
LAS VEGAS -- FBI agents have arrested a Russian programmer for giving
away software that removes the restrictions on encrypted Adobe Acrobat
files.
Dmitry Sklyarov, a lead programmer for Russian software company
ElcomSoft, was visiting the United States for the annual Defcon hacker
convention, where he gave a talk on the often-flawed security of
e-books.
This would be the second known prosecution under the criminal sections
of the controversial Digital Millennium Copyright Act, (DMCA) which
took effect last year and makes it a crime to "manufacture" products
that circumvent copy protection safeguards.
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