Zot O'Connor wrote: > Alan wrote: > > > > http://www.eff.org/alerts/20010719_eff_sklyarov_alert.html#portland The EFF has a meeting with Adobe to talk about this issue, and the protest has been put on hold http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/07/20/2045220&mode=thread Crispin > > > > > 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 -- Crispin Cowan, Ph.D. Chief Scientist, WireX Communications, Inc. http://wirex.com Security Hardened Linux Distribution: http://immunix.org Available for purchase: http://wirex.com/Products/Immunix/purchase.html
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