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Re: Russian Programmer Not Eager to be Celebrity
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John R. Levine)
Mon Aug 13 20:41:47 2001
Date: 13 Aug 2001 17:49:31 -0400
Message-ID: <20010813214931.17156.qmail@xuxa.iecc.com>
From: johnl@iecc.com (John R. Levine)
To: rah@shipwright.com, cryptography@wasabisystems.com
In-Reply-To: <p05100326b79d957f5365@[10.0.1.2]>
Cc:
>> Russian Programmer Not Eager to be Celebrity
>> Dmitry Sklyarov, the Russian programmer whose arrest last month
>> became a rallying cry for the international digerati, is a reluctant
>> celebrity.
I can't say I'm surprised. When he's not writing copy protection and
password cracking code, he's also one of the world's leading authors
of spamware, both programs to scrape e-mail addresses from web pages
(http://www.mailutilities.com/aee/) and to spam direct from dialups,
avoiding rate limits in the ISP's mail server
(http://www.mailutilities.com/adr/).
While I agree that the DMCA is an asinine law, and it's doubly asinine
to try to enforce it against non-resident foreigners, Skylarov is
hardly the virtuous innocent that some press accounts suggest he is.
--
John R. Levine, IECC, POB 727, Trumansburg NY 14886 +1 607 387 6869
johnl@iecc.com, Village Trustee and Sewer Commissioner, http://iecc.com/johnl,
Member, Provisional board, Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial E-mail
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