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Cracking Crypto To Get Into College

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the we-have-another-task-for-you dept.

Kallahar writes "New Scientist is running a story about a Canadian university who had students break an encrypted message in order to get into college. A good idea to grab a good student, but here in 'Free' America these kids would have been thrown in jail for violating the DMCA ..."

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  1. Re:The DMC is bad enough - you needn't make stuff by isomeme · · Score: 4, Redundant
    The DMCA doesn't apply when the copyright holder asks you to break the encryption.
    Tell that to Felten.

    (And yes, the RIAA backed off...but the threat was credible enough that it left the lingering possibility that someone could be prosecuted under the DMCA for breaking encryption when invited to do so, if the inviter disapproves of what they do with the information afterwards.)

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    When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a skull.