[OT] Will the SSSCA outlaw Squeak?

Andrew C. Greenberg werdna at mucow.com
Sun Sep 16 22:04:10 UTC 2001


On Sunday, September 16, 2001, at 05:02  PM, Ned Konz wrote:

> On Sunday 16 September 2001 01:10 pm, Andrew C. Greenberg wrote:
>
>> When you are able to cite a provision that makes it illegal merely to
>> discuss circumvention technology, in or out of academic research, I'll
>> lead the fight to invalidate it.
>
> As an example of a huge company pushing to criminalize certain kinds of
> speech, the Florida Statute 817.482 would seem to make it illegal to 
> describe
> phone phreaking techniques over the 'net if you thought anyone would 
> actually
> use them:

Of course, the Florida Statutes are no part of the DMCA.




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