Programmer arrested

2001-07-17 Thread Perry E. Metzger
Several people forwarded this: http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,45298,00.html -- Forwarded message -- Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 10:57:48 -0400 From: Declan McCullagh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: FC: FBI arrests Russian hacker visiting U.S. for alleged

Programmer arrested for Defcon talk?

2001-07-17 Thread Perry E. Metzger
According to slashdot (http://www.slashdot.org/) a programmer was arrested for (apparently -- details on the cited web sites are sketchy) giving a talk at Defcon in Las Vegas describing how to break the encryption in certain Adobe PDF files. It is (apparently) claimed by Adobe that this was a vio