Re: [Boston.pm] Obfuscated Perl Script to Decrypt CSS

[Ask Bjoern Hansen]

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From: Ask Bjoern Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2001 15:53:07 -0800 (PST)
Subject: Re: [Boston.pm] Obfuscated Perl Script to Decrypt CSS
To: Greg London <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
cc: Boston Perl Mongers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, Greg London wrote:

> I'm probably preaching to the choir here,
> but the fact that a judge has ruled that
> a human readable language, specifically
> C and Perl, is legally different than 
> other languages, such as English or French,
> truly, truly ticks me off.
> 
> the reasoning given by the courts is that
> the C text can be read and understood
> by a machine.
> 
> so, what the bloody heck happens when
> computers are smart enough that they
> can read an encyclopedia or textbook
> description of the algorithm? [...]

I am pretty sure I saw someone had made a version of DeCSS in
plain English. With a parser of course.

 - ask

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