Date: Fri, 7 Aug 1998 08:15:35 -0400 (EDT) From: Pat Lynch <lynch@rush.net> To: Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: addendum to How do you get crack to compile? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980807081139.669j-100000@bytor.rush.net> In-Reply-To: <19980807121746.B4151@keltia.freenix.fr>
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crack is not highly illegal on free source OS's like FreeBSD, NetBSD or anything that you have the source to the encryption algorithm anyway, this was meant to impose greater penalties for crackers and "hackers" that are malevolent. I read the text of the bill, the one Revised and dubbed "Digital Millennium" and it did not seem all that bad, in fact in some sense it was rather comforting, it did not say that finding security holes was illegal, it said that doing so against a company by selling reverse engineered work, and therefor violating copyrights was. The law was a copyright law, one meant for warez , etc. How this affects my personal hobby of encoding music on mp3.... well I cannot distribute it for profit =) not like I was anyway =) ___________________________________________________________________________ Pat Lynch lynch@rush.net Systems Administrator Rush Networking ___________________________________________________________________________ On Fri, 7 Aug 1998, Ollivier Robert wrote: > According to Sean Eric Fagan: > > So, just for everyone's information... a recent bill passed both the Senate > > and House that, among other things, makes it illegal to develop, sell, or use > > "technology" that can break encryption or copy protection. > > Last time I heard about it, it was still in House. Now, you're telling us > it passed ? :-( > > > Once this bill is signed, crack will be highly illegal in the US. > > -- > Ollivier ROBERT -=- FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! -=- roberto@keltia.freenix.fr > FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 3.0-CURRENT #62: Mon Jul 27 20:47:08 CEST 1998 > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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