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A ruling in the bnetd DMCA case

A ruling in the bnetd DMCA case

Posted Oct 4, 2004 17:58 UTC (Mon) by flewellyn (subscriber, #5047)
In reply to: A ruling in the bnetd DMCA case by French_Guest
Parent article: A ruling in the bnetd DMCA case

Yes, but you're assuming that they did anything that sane. Remember the Elcomsoft case? The encryption that Adobe went to court to defend was a piss-poor implementation of the Caesar shift cypher.

Basically, we're seeing companies use the courts to do the job that should go to real cryptographers.


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