Re: exploit in linux kernel

* Adam Trilling <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I am neither a lawyer nor a native English speaker so I had quite some
>> difficulties understanding the legalese in the DMCA. However, I think
>> this passage is what the hassle is all about:
>>
>> | No person shall manufacture, import, offer to the public, provide,
>> | or otherwise traffic in any technology, product, service, device,
>> | component, or part thereof, that is primarily designed or produced
>> | for the purpose of circumventing a technological measure that
>> | effectively controls access to a work protected under this title.
>                                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 
> The section I underlined is what makes the original post a troll.  The

The original post is not a troll. It merely points to an article which
in turn points to:

http://www.thefreeworld.net/
http://www.thefreeworld.net/faq.php
http://www.thefreeworld.net/non-US/


Whatever your interpretation of the DMCA is, some kernel developers
_are_ depositing patches or explanations of security fixes there.


Stefan Krah
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