Russian Coding Firm Back for More (Wired)

Posted Aug 26, 2002 12:24 UTC (Mon) by Geeko (guest, #3442) [Link]

Good. Hope Dmitri Sklyarov works harder than ever to create and
sell new product. And hope Americans buy a lot of it. Never surrender
new Russian freedoms to monopolist RIAA and their running dog lackeys, the FBI. Russia is a free country now. Why should they admit a new NKVD
into their country just because some Hollywood billionaires want more
money.

Posted Aug 29, 2002 10:37 UTC (Thu) by tres (guest, #352) [Link]

I hope that they learned from the past mistake(?). They should keep all of their stuff on Russian servers. If an American individual or company wants to buy a copy of their software then they should have to go through a russian site to do it - in English hopefully. I read that the FBI, CIA, and many other government agencies have purchased their produsts in the past to recover lost(?) passwords. Probably more like making cracking into the data that they have seized/intercepted/acquired easier. Hopefully those government agencies got the proper warrants!

They should also refuse to sell anything to the Freakin' Bureaucratic Idiots (FBI) on principal!

Regards, Tres

Posted Sep 1, 2002 4:39 UTC (Sun) by csawtell (guest, #986) [Link]

The book "Linux+ Study Guide" by Roderic W. Smith, published by Sybex has a CD in the back. The text of the book on this CD is in the encrypted Adobe electronic book format. There are some rather nice tools to support searching etc., but they _only_ work under the MSW o/s. The book and CD are a product which are intended to help you understand Linux which you are expected to have installed on your computer. Thus you destroy the very mechanism needed to read the book on the CD using your computer. I'd love to know if the ElcomSoft product will in fact release these particular files from their prison? What do you folks think of the morality of using the ebook processor in this case. I feel I'm justified in this case.

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Christopher Sawtell.