Programmer arrested

[Perry E. Metzger]

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http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,45298,00.html

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 10:57:48 -0400
From: Declan McCullagh <declan at well.com>
To: politech at politechbot.com
Subject: FC: FBI arrests Russian hacker visiting U.S. for alleged DMCA
    breach



   Russian Adobe Hacker Busted
   By Declan McCullagh (declan at wired.com)
   7:04 a.m. July 17, 2001 PDT

   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.

   [...]


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