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Friday, November 29, 2002
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Viruses, anti-viruses and the law of the land: "This story talks about DMCA, and how to make an argument for a class of work to be exempt from its anticircumvention section. It has occured to me that there's a case for exempting a class of works called "computer programs" for security reasons. Briefly, an anti-virus cannot operate on encrypted program files if it is not allowed to try and decrypt them, hence program files should be exempt from the prohibition to decrypt. The case, I reasoned, is probably not strong enough to win, but worth trying anyway. So I began thinking in this direction. Something else has occurred to me in process, and that's a different story." [kuro5hin.org]
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