[free-sklyarov] Sklyarov

[mark zawadzki]

Consider the lowly claw hammer. An excellent tool. The vast majority of us use it for what it was intended - striking nails & removing them.

Many mystery books have been written in which the villian uses a claw hammer to illegally gain entry or to dispatch his victims.

 One does not arrest the writer or publisher or hammer manufacturer of when some poor delusional creature then uses a claw hammer to actually murder someone. 

claw hammer = decryption software

mystery writer = Sklyarov

publisher/manufacturer = Sklyarov's employer, software distributor  " Elcomsoft "

striking nails & removing them = fair use of copyrighted works

gaining illegal entry = pirating copyrighted works

murder w/hammer = access to encrypted personal/corporate information

 

 


Mark Zawadzki
Eastern Pa. Director, Mid-Atlantic Chapter, Clan Cameron
If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants
were standing on my shoulders.-- Hal Abelson
In computer science, we stand on each other's feet. 
-- Brian K. Reed


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