[FYI] (Fwd) FC: FBI arrests Russian hacker visiting U.S. for alleged

["Axel H Horns" <horns@ipjur.com>]

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Date sent:      	Tue, 17 Jul 2001 10:57:48 -0400
From:           	Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>
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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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