I thought this guy's quote about the DMCA, CodeRed and the FBI was so interesting that I just had to forward the message on. You'll love it. And does anyone have information on reverse engineered CodeRed? Joshua Jore Minneapolis Ward 3, precinct 10 "The irony of this man being imprisoned in the United States and longing to return to once-Communist Russia so he can regain his right to free speech is simply staggering." - someone else ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2001 16:42:52 -0400 From: David Somner <dave at htxtech.com> To: IT Union <it_union at lists.microshaft.org> Subject: [It_union] DMCA and recent viruses Jeff Lane, You are totally correct - the DMCA does expressly prohibit what the BSA says you can do. It's the biggest crock of shit ever designed. Recently I found out something interesting about the Code Red and SirCam "worms/viruses". I found out where they originated from by doing a little bit of tracking reverse engineering. I contacted the FBI. They told me to destroy everything I had on it and keep my mouth shut. If I even talk about who actually created the viruses and WHY they were REALLY created, I could go to jail, rather than having some real criminal charges being bought against a certain computer software manufacturer for purposfuly selling software that containes viruses designed to allow the company back door access to every computer in the world with it's software installed on it. The DMCA has to go... NOW... it has given the wrong types of people unprecedented power to do whatever they want. Remember when the US CEO of Sony said that Sony was working on software that could invade a person's computer, find out if you had any music on it from Sony, and then shut that computer down, deny it total access to the internet if they wanted to, from anywhere in the world? I wonder if Sony implemented that... but guess what, you can't decode a CD to see if that software is installed on it, and you can't reverse-hack their website to see if they are secretly writing files to your hard drive without your knowledge. You would be in jail in seconds... Heh - just had a thought - with the DMCA, the criminals are the ones with good thoughts in mind, and the "good" guys just want to rape everyone any way they can just because they can. * DOWN WITH THE DMCA! * VIOLATE THE CORRUPT! * THE NEXT REVOLUTION - FREEDOM OF IDEAS! * REMEMBER THE CONSTITUTION! * REMEMBER IT IS ILLEGAL TO PRODUCE AND PURCHASE A COPY OF THE CONSTITUTION THAT HAS NOT BEEN PRINTED BY THE U.S. GOVERNMENT AND HAS A SPECIAL STAMP ON IT! (HAVE YOU NOTICED THAT NEW SCHOOLBOOKS DO NOT HAVE A WRITTEN COPY OF THE CONSTITUTION IN THEM ANYMORE?) * REMEMBER THAT IT IS ILLEGAL FOR A PRIVATE CITIZEN TO OWN ANY OF THE EXISTING COPIES OF THE CONSTITUTION OR THE BILL OF RIGHTS! * REMEMBER THAT THE U.S. SUPREME COURT HAS ISSUED WAVERS TO "LAW ENFORCEMENT" TO EVERY PART OF THE CONSTITUTION AND BILL OF RIGHTS! * YOU HAVE NO RIGHTS! * SMILE - OR THE THOUGHT POLICE WILL GET YOU! --Dave _______________________________________________ It_union mailing list It_union at lists.microshaft.org http://lists.microshaft.org/mailman/listinfo/it_union