Its very stupid to arrest some one for finding and demostrate a flaw in a product.
This story will be continued thats for sure..
The FBI took a Russian encryption expert into custody Monday at his hotel in Las Vegas for allegedly publishing software that cracks a variety of methods used to secure e-books. |
The bureau acknowledged Tuesday that it had arrested security researcher Dmitry Sklyarov for what it said was a violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. The arrest came a day after Sklyarov outlined the problems plaguing e-book formats and Adobe's PDF format at the Def Con hacking conference.
"He is being held pending extradition back to San Francisco," said Daron W. Borst, a spokesman for the FBI's Las Vegas office. According to Borst, the warrant for Sklyarov's arrest was issued in the Northern District of California. If convicted, Sklyarov would face a maximum penalty of a $500,000 fine and five years in prison.
Sklyarov is an employee of Elcom, a Moscow-based company and the publisher of the Advanced eBook Processor, a program that cracks the encryption protection on Adobe's eBook format, converting it to Adobe PDF format.
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Source: Cnet
