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07/22 yes the US sucks for arresting the russian adobe ebook hacker,
but I think he fucked up by actually charging money for his
program (a free version that partially decrypted the ebook,
a non free version that decrypted the entire book).
\_ His company charged money for the program. He wrote the program.
\_ does this company have any other employees?
\_ Yep, a bunch. http://www.elcomsoft.com
--Galen
\_ If you visit Elcomsoft's website, don't forget to check
out http://www.mailutilities.com too (different URL,
but all Elcomsoft products). Gotten spam lately?
There's a good chance that you can thank Elcomsoft and
its happy band of "white-hat" (ha) hackers for writing and
selling address-harvesting and bulk-E-mailing software.
\_ why shouldn't he be arrested? the law's the law, shouldn't people
be bitching and doing something about the law instead of whining
about the enforcement? hm, i'd be interested in seeing a poll of
industry employees vs. college kids re: this law.
\_ Elcomsoft is based in Russia, isn't it? US law does not
apply to violations of American justice committed outside
the country. Not even if the perpetrator subsequently enters
the US. I don't see what is so difficult about this concept.
If he had written the tool inside the US, or were hosting it
on a US webserver (did he?) the situation would be different.
In this case, the only justification for arresting him here
would be a formal request for legal assistance and extradition
from Russian police as a result of a crime committed in
Russia. -John
\_ What did he do?
\_ This *is* an attempt to change the law.
\_ There are (at least) two troubling things here:
1) putting someone in _jail_ and refusing access to diplomatic
envoys for "violating" the DMCA
2) the DMCA itself, for making it impossible to expose false
advertising on the part of companies selling hw or sw security
systems. "Your security is broken" "Prove it or we sue you
for libel" "OK, here, look!" "Smack, you're in jail for
violating the DMCA" --dbushong
\_ Free Dmitry. http://www.boycottadobe.org/pages/rallies.html
Rally at Adobe in San Jose tomorrow mid-day among other places. |
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| www.mailutilities.com US agents have raided a Detroit-area operation accused of sending out millions of e-mail advertisements for a fraudulent weight-loss patch, the Federal Trade Commission said. Daniel Lin, Mark Sadek, James Lin and Christopher Chung could face up to five years in jail under a new anti-spam law that took effect in January. The FTC said Detroit-based Phoenix Avatar was behind spam that caused 490,000 consumer complaints to be filed. Phoenix sold "bogus diet patches" via spam, the FTC complaint says, and made about $100,000 a month. That is the same length of time it takes New Zealand Post to get a snail mail to an address in the same town. A spokesperson for Xtra said the problem was temporary and seemed to be caused by a dramatic increase in junk email and email. Sadek and Christopher Chung, all believed living in suburban Detroit. They were accused of disguising their identities in hundreds of thousands of sales pitches and delivering e-mails by bouncing messages through unprotected relay computers on the Internet. Shane Merritt, director of Network and Computing Services, said the new software will combat junk e-mail by inserting the word "spam" in the subject lines of questionable e-mails. He said the spam would still appear in the mailbox, but junk mail would be easier to filter through. Spam is one of the good guys, a cyber sleuth employed by the taxpayers at the Federal Trade Commission. Im probably getting a little less, said Lank, who relies on his laptop and his cell phone to stay in touch throughout the day. But Lank, whose job takes him on the road a lot, said spam is just a part of todays Internet-dependent world, a part hes willing to accept. Now with colored list of emails, Windows XP visual styles support, one-click MS Excel export and many other improvements! |