Anti-Hacking Law to take Effect

Anti-Hacking Law to take Effect
Kevin Poulsen, SecurityFocus 2000-10-25

Exemptions to the Digital Millenium Copyright Act due Friday.

access control 2000-10-25
Matthew Harrell

I personally, do not agree with this law. I believe it isn't hurting anyone when someone posts the DeCSS code on a website. It's normally called "freedom of speech", but when mass media and big corporations get ahold of the situation, it flips to their only worry, money, which they also waste o...

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Wake up Metalitz...Wake up... 2000-10-26
Dennis W. Mattison (LittleW0lf) (1 replies)

'"If this is really a problem right now, then people would be hacking through these protections, and they would be circumventing these controls, because it's not illegal right now," says Metalitz. "That would make their case."'

I found this paragraph to be one of the clearest indications that the...

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Wake up Metalitz...Wake up... 2000-10-30
Klinge C01

One more step closer to a communist amerika and another ding in freedom's armour. In my opinion, this is just another point closer towards commercialized control...too much of a good thing can be bad.

Also, will we all be classified as sociopath's soon? Maybe soon after it is unlawful to talk a...

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Question on this new law?!?!? 2000-10-28
Dark Destroyar

The addendum to the DMCA states, "...effectively controls access." If that is what it actually says, then they have left a big loophole for anyone to get away with it. What i mean by that is that if something is going to effectively controll access, anytime that it is "Accessed" then that product di...

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