Thursday, July 10, 2003

DMCA may be worse the Home Secrets Act I used to think that the Brits were the most uptight about public information being made, err, public.  I met a student 22 years ago arrested for making a map showing that NSA satellite dishes were conveniently parked next to British telephone switching stations.  That's like someone noting on a road map where the military installations are located here. So, someone writes a book that talks about how a supposedly secure system is "cracked" ... and after the publisher's attornies revew the chapters -- they withdraw support of the book.  So much for speech and innovation, right? Behind a Hacker's Book, a Primer on Copyright Law. An engineer and programmer in San Diego has also been an introduction to copyright law in the digital age. By Seth Schiesel. [New York Times: Technology] comment [] 9:11:00 AM