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Re: password-cracking by journalists...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Will Rodger)
Fri Jan 18 14:16:53 2002
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Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 09:41:53 -0500
To: "Arnold G. Reinhold" <reinhold@world.std.com>,
Steve Bellovin <smb@research.att.com>, cryptography@wasabisystems.com
From: Will Rodger <wrodger@pobox.com>
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Arnhold writes:
>Another interesting question is whether the reporters and the Wall Street
>Journal have violated the DCMA's criminal provisions. The al Qaeda data
>was copyrighted (assuming Afghanistan signed one of the copyright
>conventions--they may not have), the encryption is arguably a
>"technological protection measure" and the breaking was done for financial
>gain.
That, I think, is an unintended consequence of the law, but I bet there's a
lawyer somewhere who'd take a crack at it. More important is the origin of
the info. itself: were it peacetime you'd have a pretty clear case of
receiving stolen property. Add to that certain trade-secret laws in various
of the 50 United States, and you could do a long time in the slammer over
this...
Will Rodger
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