Netintercept and SSH Decryption

[Brian Densmore]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jason Clinton 
> 
> 
> Brian Densmore wrote:
> 
> | Not to mention the fact that it would be a violation of the DMCA
> | for them to actually do this. So it would appear they are felons;
> | maybe someone should report them to the DOJ.
> 
> It's only a violation of the DMCA to crack encryption that was put in
> place to prevent copying. ... but spying on people is okay. 

No, it actually says that selling or distributing
methods of cracking encrypted copyrighted material
is illegal and ssh is copyrighted encryption. Not
to mention that many encrypted ssh tunnels are 
transmitting copyrighted material, which makes
any program explicitly designed to unencrypt that data
a violation of the DMCA. Even if the program doesn't 
copy the copyrighted material the mere act of unencrypting
it (in order to get at passwords, which aren't) is illegal.
You see there are many problems with the DMCA, which was
designed only to prevent people from copying CDs and DVDs,
but is so wide ranging that many legitimate uses and some
immoral but legal uses are now criminalized.