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Subject:RE: Simple crack of Word protected files: RTF From:Alan Bucher <bucherino -at- yahoo -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Fri, 7 Feb 2003 11:02:33 -0800 (PST)
Peter Harkins wrote:
>It's now illegal in the USA to circumvent a protection method for a
>copyrighted text like this, and to own, traffic in or create tools
>to do so.
Whoa, that's quite a broad interpretation of a law that isn't that
broad. "Save As" isn't circumventing protection. If you wrote a
program that decoded a binary .doc file and stripped out the
password, that's a different story.
And yes, it's all absurd.
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