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Adobe "aggressively pushing standards, unapproved by professional cryptologists"

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/20444.html

eBook security debunker arrested by Feds

By John Leyden

Posted: 17/07/2001 at 16:29 GMT

A Russian security expert has been arrested after making a presentation at Defcon pointing out the shortcomings of eBook security.

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For its part ElcomSoft said that Abode would do better to fix the problems with its software than label other firms as agents in software piracy.

"We claim that by aggressively pushing standards, unapproved by professional cryptologists, to the fast growing electronic books market and with pursuing of independent researchers who tries to highlight the problems, Adobe Systems violates the rights of books authors and publishers." ®

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