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Authored by: stegu on Wednesday, June 13 2012 @ 12:58 PM EDT |
Some people even wear the label "cracker" with
pride. People come in all kinds, thank goodness,
but the DMCA and its siblings in other countries
have created lots of problems for security research.
The problem is not that you can't take your
students out on a field trip to find weaknesses
in WiFi hotspots or tell them to look for security
holes in some random web server, or any other real
world activity like that. The problem is that you
can't even legally *tell* students what the problems
are with real world systems, because that would
violate the DMCA by "disclosing information on how
to defeat or circumvent digital protection measures".
In a society where security research is illegal
unless it is conducted in closed circles, such
research will mainly be done by criminals.
That is not the kind of society I would trust
with safeguarding my data and my online activity.
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- Exactly so... - Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, June 13 2012 @ 01:25 PM EDT
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