Tuesday, July 17, 2001

FBI arrests Russian hacker visiting U.S. for alleged DMCA breach Russian Adobe Hacker Busted By Declan McCullagh (declan@wired.com), 17 Jul 2001 http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,45298,00.html 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. [...] POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. To subscribe, visit http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ [Declan McCullagh via risks-digest Volume 21, Issue 53] 0:00 # G!