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[FYI] (Fwd) FC: FBI arrests Russian hacker visiting U.S. for alleged
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- Subject: [FYI] (Fwd) FC: FBI arrests Russian hacker visiting U.S. for alleged
- From: "Axel H Horns" <horns@ipjur.com>
- Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 18:13:13 +0200
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Date sent: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 10:57:48 -0400
From: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>
To: politech@politechbot.com
Subject: FC: FBI arrests Russian hacker visiting U.S. for alleged DMCA breach
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http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,45298,00.html
Russian Adobe Hacker Busted
By Declan McCullagh (declan@wired.com)
7:04 a.m. July 17, 2001 PDT
LAS VEGAS -- FBI agents have arrested a Russian programmer for
giving away software that removes the restrictions on encrypted
Adobe Acrobat files.
Dmitry Sklyarov, a lead programmer for Russian software company
ElcomSoft, was visiting the United States for the annual Defcon
hacker convention, where he gave a talk on the often-flawed
security of e-books.
This would be the second known prosecution under the criminal
sections of the controversial Digital Millennium Copyright Act,
(DMCA) which took effect last year and makes it a crime to
"manufacture" products that circumvent copy protection safeguards.
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