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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