[free-sklyarov] An Alternative Line of Argumentation

[Jay Sulzberger]

On Sun, 22 Jul 2001, David Honig wrote:

> 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?

You are welcome to the last word in sub-thread.

oo--JS.