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...American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) asked a federal court last week to rule that the First Amendment allows a recent Harvard graduate to decrypt the list of websites contained in an Internet filtering program and to post the list on his Harvard-hosted website...
...software that converts DVD-quality movies into easily-transferrable files is also difficult to find. Under the Digital Media Copyright Act, it is illegal to distribute DeCSS, the program used to decrypt DVD movies and copy them onto disk. The MPAA has routinely threatened those who post the program on their websites or servers with legal action...
Thus, although various computers on the Internet can still intercept the information you are transmitting, the encrypted nature of this information renders it meaningless. Attempts to decrypt the information, by anyone but the intended receiver, involves the commitment of years of computer time, frequently more years than the average human lifepan...
...Navigator software to conceal information such as credit card numbers in transactions over the Internet. (Rumor has it that the authors of the cracking program did their handiwork after watching the movie Hackers.) The security flaw stems from Netscape's use of a 30-digit binary "key" to decrypt such messages; the company has since released a new version using a 300-digit key which is significantly harder to defeat...