[free-sklyarov] Programmers sued, or at risk, for decryption work (fwd)

[Jei]

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Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 00:36:48 -0500
From: Seth Finkelstein <sethf at MIT.EDU>
Reply-To: Law & Policy of Computer Communications <CYBERIA-L at LISTSERV.AOL.COM>
To: CYBERIA-L at LISTSERV.AOL.COM
Subject: Programmers sued, or at risk, for decryption work

        With the indictment of Jon Johansen, I decided I'd make a list
of all the programmers recently having or needing lawyers for their
decryption or related work. Have I missed anybody here who should be
on the list?

Dimitry Sklyarov - PDF decryption - criminal case

Jon Johansen - participating in DVD decryption program - criminal case

Unknown German - actual DVD decryption - anonymous

Matthew Skala and Eddy L.O. Jansson - CyberPatrol censorware - civil case

"Beale Screamer" - Microsoft lockware ("digital rights management") - anonymous

SDMI researchers (too many to mention all of them individually, but
notably Felten, Craver, etc) - threats

Bennett Haselton - Cybersitter, I-Gear censorware - threats

Seth Finkelstein - various anticensorware work - 'nuff said


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Seth Finkelstein  Consulting Programmer  sethf at sethf.com  http://sethf.com
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/19/technology/circuits/19HACK.html
BESS's Secret LOOPHOLE: http://sethf.com/anticensorware/bess/loophole.php
BESS vs Google: http://sethf.com/anticensorware/bess/google.php


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