PDF wecurity and DMCA

Subject: PDF wecurity and DMCA
From: Sandy Harris <sandy -at- storm -dot- ca>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 13:19:43 -0400

Related to two recent threads, one from a whirler who wanted to
break PDF encryption and another from someone worrying about
security for web documents.

According to Slashdot:
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/07/17/130226&mode=thread

a Russian programmer has been arrested for giving at talk at the
Defcon (www.defcon.org) "hacker" conference on how to break the
encryption Adobe uses on their PDF files.

Sure is great, now that the Cold War is over, to see America
showing the Russians how Freedom of Speech works!

The legislation involved is the US DMCA, an act that makes it
illegal to disseminate tools for circumventing access controls
on copyright material.

This is the same law the movie industry and DVD makers are using
to sue multiple webmasters over DeCSS:
http://www.eff.org/Legal/active_legal.html

See also:
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/DeCSS/Gallery/

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