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ElcomSoft Back For More

Posted by michael on from the never-say-die dept.

graveyhead writes "Most everyone here should remember the Dmitri Skylarov fiasco last year. Apparently ElcomSoft, the company Dmitry works for, is not intimidated by Adobe or the DMCA. Wired is running this story that describes ElcomSoft's upcoming products, most of which could be interpreted as a violation of the DMCA. What's particularly interesting is that this announcement comes right at the beginning of the trial which is scheduled to begin on August 26."

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  1. His surname by Andy+Smith · · Score: 3, Informative

    Sklyarov

    l before y

  2. Re:Isn't this transcribed anyway? by Rain · · Score: 2, Informative

    Well, Slashdot USED to support unicode (by way of &unicodeoffset;), but in a move of sheer brilliance, someone made just about every form that takes user input strip most HTML &entities. Since Slashdot doesn't provide a charset specification for its pages, this removes any portable way to post anything but pure 7-bit ascii. (Not that I'm bitter or anything :)

    Here's a couple of alternatives, though:
    * echo +BBQEPAQ4BEIEQAQ4BDk +BCEEOgQ7BE8EQAQ+BDI | iconv -f utf-7 -t utf-8
    (or replace utf-8 with whatever charset your terminal can render. uxterm or xterm -u8 with a decent font (I use -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c -60-iso10646-1) should be able to render it)
    * http://halcyon.bluecherry.net/~rain/dmitry.html -- Let your browser do the work. This is probably the easiest bet if your browser supports UTF-8 (it should) and you have Cyrillic fonts installed.

    Disclaimer: I Am Not A Russian.
    (But I'm fairly certain this is correct.)