[free-sklyarov] Re: Highly respected OpenBSD, OpenSSH programmer censors website, cites DMCA

[Jon O .]

There is a reporter doing a story on this "Internet Blackout" trend
so if you find another site that has put up Dug Song's Censored page,
please let me know. We have a somewhat of a list, but you never know...






On 04-Sep-2001, Jon O . wrote:
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> Subject: [DMCA_discuss] Highly respected OpenBSD, OpenSSH programmer censors website, cites DMCA
> Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2001 16:09:01 -0700
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> Dug Song is a highly respected OpenBSD, OpenSSH programmer and the 
> author of Dsniff and numerous security papers including a common 
> vulnerability in many firewall applications and servers.
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> He has censored his own website, citing the DMCA:
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> http://www.monkey.org/~dugsong/
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> At this time it is not clear whether the site was taken down under 
> pressure from corporations or simply attempting to express feelings
> about the DMCA and possibly start a trend whereby security researchers
> withhold their own research because they are at risk under the DMCA.
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> Many people outside of the security industry do not fully understand
> that independent security research by people like Dug Song often find
> security holes, vulnerabilities and are the driving force toward stronger
> software and security practices within corporations. They are the watch
> dogs that ensure indepentent security testing (often, if not always) without
> compensation and simply for the challenge and to promote safer, stronger 
> software.
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