Your copy of windows is genuine and activated.. but lets check it anyway. again. again and again.
Where is becomes troublesome is when you have registered and activated your product, yet it insists that you have not. I have seen such with other applications, by reputable publishers, so it is not out of the question for Microsoft to have this problem at some point. When it is your OS and the OS nags you incessantly when you've done what is asked is reason enough to uninstall and go back to an older version of Windows or consider other alternatives.
Wouldn't a crypto book be in violation of the DMCA?
It is likely that that particular law is in place to protect distribution of codes that actually protect something of value or interest to law enforcement or government agencies. While no one really cares about the codes that are created by kids on a playground, the PGP fiasco a while back was a bigger problem because people outside of the US could use it to encrypt data that the US government couldn't access.
Another possibility is that the book may just have codes in it that are already considered cracked and therefore "obsolete".
Since it's a code specific to that statue, does it really matter?
The hard part will be keeping infighting to a minimum. Many times, organizations like this set out with great intentions and admirable goals, only to become very ineffective when infighting and internal empire-building take place.
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Your copy of windows is genuine and activated.. but lets check it anyway. again. again and again.
Where is becomes troublesome is when you have registered and activated your product, yet it insists that you have not. I have seen such with other applications, by reputable publishers, so it is not out of the question for Microsoft to have this problem at some point. When it is your OS and the OS nags you incessantly when you've done what is asked is reason enough to uninstall and go back to an older version of Windows or consider other alternatives.
Wouldn't a crypto book be in violation of the DMCA?
It is likely that that particular law is in place to protect distribution of codes that actually protect something of value or interest to law enforcement or government agencies. While no one really cares about the codes that are created by kids on a playground, the PGP fiasco a while back was a bigger problem because people outside of the US could use it to encrypt data that the US government couldn't access.
Another possibility is that the book may just have codes in it that are already considered cracked and therefore "obsolete".
Since it's a code specific to that statue, does it really matter?
The hard part will be keeping infighting to a minimum. Many times, organizations like this set out with great intentions and admirable goals, only to become very ineffective when infighting and internal empire-building take place.