-Caveat Lector- <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"> </A> -Cui Bono?- from: http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,33889,00.html Click Here: <A HREF="http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,33889,00.html"> Teen Hacker's Home Raided</A> ----- Teen Hacker's Home Raided by Lynn Burke 11:45 a.m. 25.Jan.2000 PST The home of a 16-year-old Norwegian hacker, who has become the Helen of Troy of the hacking world, was raided Monday. Police entered Jon Johansen's Larvik home and confiscated two personal computers, a mobile phone, and several computer disks, Norwegian newspapers reported. The National Authority of Fraud Investigation, the agency responsible for enviromental, computer, and economic crime in Norway, was apparently responding to the two federal lawsuits filed in the United States by the Motion Picture Association of America against several hackers who posted a code that breaks through the encryption code of DVDs. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ See also: More Bad News for DVD Hackers Read ongoing Linux coverage Read more Politics -- from Wired News Read more Technology -- from Wired News ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Johansen is co-founder of a group called MoRE (Masters of Reverse Engineering), and it was there, he told Wired News, that he worked with others in developing the code. He has never named those authors publicly. Johansen says he posted the code because he wanted to help make a DVD player available for the Linux OS. After the raid, Johansen was taken to a police station and questioned for nearly seven hours. When he finally arrived home, Johansen posted a message to slashdot.org, a popular open-source news site. "It's 2 a.m. CET now (I just got back), I haven't eaten, and someone's definitely going to pay for this," he wrote. "Did someone whisper countersuit?" Several Web sites have sprung up as a result of the news. Newyen Technology in El Sobrante, California posted a site collecting digital signatures for an Internet Constitution to somehow help Johansen in the face of what many are calling a witch hunt. "This is a good example of how aggressive the MPAA is determined to pursue this," said Tom McGuire, spokesman for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the San Francisco-based group that is bankrolling the defense for the three cases filed in the United States. "To the best of our knowledge, what he did was completely legal," he said. "To pursue a 16 year old is inappropriate." Spokesmen for the MPAA were not immediately available for comment. Copyright © 1994-2000 Wired Digital Inc. All rights reserved. ----- Aloha, He'Ping, Om, Shalom, Salaam. Em Hotep, Peace Be, All My Relations. Omnia Bona Bonis, Adieu, Adios, Aloha. Amen. Roads End <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substance—not soap-boxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
