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Russian Adobe Hacker Busted

Jul 17, 2001

Adobe's big news at the recent Online Learning Market conference in Vancouver was its encrypted format that would enforce copyright protection. But Adobe is looking to the law, not technology, to enforce its encryption scheme as a Russian programmer, Dmitry Sklyarov, is arrested at Defcon 9, an annual hacker convention, for giving away software that removes the restrictions on Acrobat files.

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