Silencing Science — Copyright Police Reach Across Oceans

Security Focus: Video crypto standard cracked?
Noted cryptographer Niels Ferguson says he’s broken Intel’s vaunted HDCP Digital Video Encryption System, but fear of U.S. law is keeping him silent on the details.

Now the pernicous Digital Millennium Copyright Act has silenced someone in another country.

Scientists are muzzling themselves for fear of annoying some of the greediest and most arrogant industries on the planet, the entertainment companies and their quisling co-conspirators in the technology business. Where is the outcry?

Silencing the scientists is abysmal public policy. It’s dangerous. Do you care?


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