Lisa Rein, a technology activist, is attending the Elcomsoft hearings in San Jose this week and blogging it in the evenings. This is the most recent case shaking out from the arrest of Dmitry Skylarov, a Russian researcher, for violating the DMCA by explaining how broken Adobe's ebook security was. Dmitry went to jail for 30 days, and the Russian State Department has advised its scientists to steer clear of US shore lest they, too, be arrested for delivering technical presentations. Dmitry eventually had his charges dropped, in exchange for recording testimony that is being used to prosecute his employer, Elcomsoft, whose software could be used to extract cleartext from encrypted ebook files.
(Semi)-Live notes from the Elcomsoft trial
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