Re: snake oil

J. Lasser (jon@lasser.org)
Tue, 23 Jun 1998 17:45:58 -0400

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In the wise words of Andrew Loewenstern:

> Mike Stay writes:
> > Oops! Crypto challenges are provided for under the bill.
> > But any third-party analysis of software without the vendor's
> > consent is illegal.
>
> Will this provision stand up in court? There are many court cases that
> support peoples right to reverse-engineer software: the Phoenix BIOS case, and
> cases where vendors reverse-engineered Microsoft's proprietary API.

Yes, it will. The purpose of the changes to the law are to make those
provisions enforcable.

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