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Re: password-cracking by journalists... (long, sorry)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Will Rodger)
Tue Jan 22 10:32:37 2002
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Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2002 10:13:03 -0500
To: daw@mozart.cs.berkeley.edu (David Wagner),
cryptography@wasabisystems.com
From: Will Rodger <wrodger@pobox.com>
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David says:
>I spent a lot of time talking to lawyers at UC Berkeley and
>elsewhere about this very issue, and there appears to be a real
>but very-hard-to-quantify risk -- a risk to scientists that should
>not be lightly dismissed.
>
>Given this risk, I've decided I cannot afford to work any further
>in the area of copy protection as long as the uncertainty remains.
>And how in good conscience can I advise students working with me
>to work in this troubled area? I can't.
I'd say only the law isn't a bright line against research. Are there
ambiguities that make it a hazard? No doubt. No arguments here, David.
Will
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