News on Dmitry Sklyarov's arrest for embaressing Adobe by exposing some of
the very weak encryption used in their e-book format (including rot13), under
DMCA legislation.
http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-07-19-009-20-NW-CY
Seems quite a few aren't very happy about it. http://www.boycottadobe.com/
Perhaps anyone who deals with Adobe might consider mentioning the issue.
Also anyone involved with reverse engineering formats, might re-consider
holidays to the states, your stay could be extended ;)
Rob
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