[CLUE-Talk] dinner meeting of possible interest, other DMCA discussion

[Charles Oriez]

At 05:07 PM 4/15/2003 -0600, Jed S. Baer wrote:



>IIRC (from the politechbot mailing list), the orignal legal notice (a
>cease and desist letter?) mentioned the DMCA.


true.  The C&D mentioned it, but the complaint did not.  One question is 
whether they are free to amend the complaint at a later date.  There was 
also some discussion on slashdot that perhaps the DMCA would have been 
politically an uncomfortable fit for them, given their customer base of 
schools and universities.  If they were confident of a win without it, 
there may have been a policy decision to avoid the political hot potato.


>Also, this month's Cryptogram http://www.counterpane.com/crypto-gram.html
>mentions the practical arguments (% false positives vs. % false negatives)
>against the loosening of accuarcy requirements for the NCIC (National
>Criminal Information Center) database.

I think I'll print some copies for Thursday's meeting. I have alot of 
respect for Schneier


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