Re: Student faces suit over key to CD locks

[Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu]

On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 09:25:16 CDT, "Schmehl, Paul L" said:

> Not only that, but by annoucing they are going to sue, they hype the
> press up so the general public knows about it as well.  As it was, the
> security community and interested geeks were probably the only ones who
> would have noticed the issue, but now the whole world knows.  Can you
> imagine Johnny Slowpoke, who knows little to nothing about computers,
> reading the article and saying, "Honey, look at this.  Some company made
> copy protection for CDs that was so lame that all you have to do is hold
> down the shift key to bypass it.  Can you imagine that?  How stupid is
> that?  And now they're suing the student who pointed it out.  What a
> bunch of dorks!"

Been there, done that, some people don't learn:

Adobe. rot-13. Some poor guy from Moscow.

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