Alan wrote: > > http://www.eff.org/alerts/20010719_eff_sklyarov_alert.html#portland > > For those of you unfamiliar with the situation: > > Dmitry Sklyarov is a Russian cryptographer that was presenting a paper on > security problems with Abobe's e-book format. (Like use of ROT-13.) He was > arrested immediatly after the presentation and is now somewhere in Federal > prison for violating the DMCA. > > This is pretty nasty. Basically it means that anyone who exposes weaknesses > in copy protection (no matter how bad) can be put in jail for five years and > fined a bunch of money. > > Double-plus ungood. > > Portland Protest > WHEN/WHERE > Mon., July 23, 2001, 11am PT, at Terry Shrunck Plaza outside the Federal > Building, downtown Portland. > > Rideshare/Carpool Board for rideshare/carpooling on the EFF link above. > > EVENT CONTACT > > Jeme A. Brelin > jeme@private > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Support PLUG and the Open Source Community http://www.linuxfund.org/lugs/?lug=plug > To unsubscribe from the PLUG list visit http://www.pdxlinux.org/mailing_list/ -- Zot O'Connor http://www.ZotConsulting.com http://www.WhiteKnightHackers.com
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