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Friday, April 18, 2003  

Kevin Poulson has written a superb article on DMCA issues entitled: 'Super-DMCA' fears suppress security research

"A University of Michigan graduate student noted for his research into steganography and honeypots -- techniques for concealing messages and detecting hackers, respectively -- says he's been forced to move his research papers and software offshore and prohibit U.S. residents from accessing it, in response to a controversial new state law that makes it a felony to possess software capable of concealing the existence or source of any electronic communication."

"Concealing the existence of communication is my dissertation, and concealing the source of communication takes place in honey nets," says Niels Provos. "So I decided to be proactive about it and move it to another location, and for now just deny anybody from the states to download any of my software."

"It's very difficult, reading the law, it makes basically everything that I do illegal." -- Niels Provos

Interesting reading....

posted by David | 4/18/2003 05:33:00 PM

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