RE: [Full-Disclosure] Student faces suit over key to CD locks

["Schmehl, Paul L" <pauls@utdallas.edu>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Johan Denoyer [mailto:jdenoy@digital-connexion.info] 
> Sent: Friday, October 10, 2003 1:49 AM
> To: Richard M. Smith
> Cc: full-disclosure@lists.netsys.com
> Subject: Re: [Full-Disclosure] Student faces suit over key to CD locks
> 
> It's funny as how companys are running crazy. Throwing 
> lawsuit at anyone that proves that they are complete idiots!
> 
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!"

Paul Schmehl (pauls@utdallas.edu)
Adjunct Information Security Officer
The University of Texas at Dallas
AVIEN Founding Member
http://www.utdallas.edu/~pauls/ 

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