The thing that I want to bring up is that in the US, it is ILLEGAL to break encryption. What these journalists did was illegal. (Assuming that they went back to the states to break the encryption. Or even used the newspaper's machines that were in the US.)
It is illegal under ALL CIRCUMSTANCES to break encryption protecting copyright-protected works, which this cretainly was. Let's see, an encrypted file system, which they broke into, was protecting (at the very least) Microsoft's Windows 2000 and IE, which are protected by copyright.
Also, the documents that the previous person wrote was protected by copyright, right?
You might say to me, "but it's OK, they were doing it for a good cause, to save lives."
Well, you would be right, but it DOESN'T MATTER.
The DMCA says so. These reporters should be thrown in jail for their efforts, I mean, if they were computer programmers they would have been!:)
When everyone sees just how stupid this law is we might just get it overturned.
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The thing that I want to bring up is that in the US, it is ILLEGAL to break encryption. What these journalists did was illegal. (Assuming that they went back to the states to break the encryption. Or even used the newspaper's machines that were in the US.)
:)
It is illegal under ALL CIRCUMSTANCES to break encryption protecting copyright-protected works, which this cretainly was. Let's see, an encrypted file system, which they broke into, was protecting (at the very least) Microsoft's Windows 2000 and IE, which are protected by copyright.
Also, the documents that the previous person wrote was protected by copyright, right?
You might say to me, "but it's OK, they were doing it for a good cause, to save lives."
Well, you would be right, but it DOESN'T MATTER.
The DMCA says so. These reporters should be thrown in jail for their efforts, I mean, if they were computer programmers they would have been!
When everyone sees just how stupid this law is we might just get it overturned.