[free-sklyarov] Wording...

[Ilya V. Vasilyev]

Hi, Derek!

> Again, you're preaching to the choir. _I_ understand the correlation 
> between fair-use on books and fair-use on e-books, but the media has 
> biased the "masses" against "hackers" through years of bad press.

People in Russian mailing list made the things clear:

-- Ruslan Kurepin --
We must do that Dima name willn't touch by dirt among people.
People must know, that it isn't "Russian hacker taken by
American secret service", that this is the same unlawlessness, that
States successfully demonstrate on their own land and abroad.
-- Ruslan Kurepin --

Thats why I suggest don't use word "hacker", but use words
"computer security specialist", "young scientist" and "a programmer"
instead.  There were no "cracking", it was "security hole demonstration".

Face the facts -- Dmitry didn't crack some expensive e-Book.
He just demonstrate the weakness of Adobe security system,
that was selling for great money ($3,000 per page).  Adobe
fooled its customers.

There isn't even the slightest evidence, that someone used
ElcomSoft program to gain unauthorised access.  The only
use was -- to demonstrate security flaws.  If I use their
program, the only use would be to read material, that is
free availiable (i.e. Intel manuals) on old computers, I have.

If Dmitry is sued because of cracking -- he did nothing
of that kind in US.  It is common practice, that people go to
some country to do something, that is illegal in another
country.  I think, there are enough legal cases to show this.

As the fact, Adobe is the site, that must be sued.
Does EFF looked on idea of counter-claim (Adobe fooled
customers, false advertising)?

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Ilya V. Vasilyev
Civil Hackers' School
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