[free-sklyarov] Anyone suppose that DMCA also outlaws...

[Tom]

On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 04:32:54PM -0700, Roger Kramer wrote:
> ...use of xxd, hexdump, or khexedit?  When the encryption of the binary 
> you're looking at is as weak as ROT-13, just viewing the raw binary nearly 
> constitutes "circumvention" doesn't it? 

here's one evil thought:

I know people who can READ object code. it's awkward, it's slow, but
they can do it. they are exceptions, no question asked. but they do
exist.

what about those guys? are they a circumvention device?