[free-sklyarov] An Alternative Line of Argumentation

[David Honig]

At 07:41 PM 7/22/01 -0400, Jay Sulzberger wrote:
>On Sun, 22 Jul 2001, David Honig wrote:
>>
>> Ok fine, so you use stego to put the messages into baby pictures.
>>
>> Then they outlaw stego code.  And require you to run a govt monitor program
>> on your machine in order to connect.
>>
>> That of course is a full police state, equivalent to a camera in every
room.
>>
>> Welcome to Dark Ages II.
>>
>> Can we get back to helping this programmer/grad (could be *you*)
>> and leave cypherpunk dystopias to another list?

>
>No.  You are wrong in your stance and wrong on the particulars.
>
>Do you know of the "CPRM" proposal to place one meg of spy
>hardware/firmware/software into every IDE had drive made after 1 August
>2001?  


Yep.  Mandatory CPRM (or any similar) would be a police state.

This spy stuff would be capable of scanning your whole hard disk
>and sending back encrypted reports to Infotainment Central.  This spy
>stuff would also allow Infotainment Central to disable your hard drive,
>whether or not you wished your hard drive disabled.  Are you aware that
>the proposal almost passed?  Are you aware that Dmitry Sklyarov sits in
>jail today because Adobe is trying to keep people from finding out that
>Adobe uses rot13 to protect valuable material?  

Fuck rot-13.  A programmer/researcher/father is in jail because of his 
company's endeavors.  That is what matters immediately.  Adobe's incompetence
and the erosion of liberty embodied in DCMA come later.  The *second* DS is
home.

In the longer term, fixing the abuse of the law inherent in DCMA is the goal.
Right now, free the dude.  Let the corps/EFFectors battle it out without
dragging this
man away bonding with his kids.

Perhaps you have not heard
>of the costs of defending 2600 against a frivolous suit brought by the
>MPAA?  

I wore my 2600 t-shirt when I postered a purported Adobe office this
afternoon.

>Perhaps you have not heard of the massive placement of spy cameras
>in our cities?

Heard of, flamed against, conspired against.  Any questions? 

Please, back to freeing a colleage, and throttle back on the internecine
warfare, ok?