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Anticircumvention Laws Seen as Threat to Science
Scott_Marks writes: "Science magazine has a review by Pamela Samuelson on the effect of anticircumvention rules on the pursuit of scientific knowledge. The abstract: 'Scientists who study encryption or computer security or otherwise reverse engineer technical measures, who make tools enabling them to do this work, and who report the results of their research face new risks of legal liability because of recently adopted rules prohibiting the circumvention of technical measures and manufacture or distribution of circumvention tools. Because all data in digital form can be technically protected, the impact of these rules goes far beyond encryption and computer security research. The scientific community must recognize the harms these rules pose and provide guidance about how to improve the anticircumvention rules.'"
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Those damned terrorists just took out the Empire State Building and Sears towers! The Empire State Building is still standing but the Sears went down 35 minutes after it was hit. There are also reports of a gas attack on Boston. Another plane was shot down on its way to the capital.
Yahoo has the terrible details here.
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Since we have to give the goverment backdoors to our stuff...Does this mean we'll get a backdoor
to there goodies?
Instead the War on Terrorism will resemble the War on Drugs. Read more here.
Your sense of humor needs a *lot* of work...
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You know, if you can't be bothered to read the article, at least you could read the description. What's really sad is that the moderators are just as clueless and somehow brought this up to +2.
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The Washington Post is reporting that Phil Zimmermann, the creator of PGP, has gotten hate mail in the wake of the WTC attacks.
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And who the hell gave that +1 Interesting?????
Tom.
Oh arse