Today I listened to a radio program on which a man involved as a Locksport competitor spoke. It is fascinating to hear both sides of the argument about whether this sport should be banned. Actually both sides were presented by law enforcement and security people. The beat cops think it is a terrible thing because it can be abused (forgetting that the instructions for picking locks are already on the Internet through YouTube). The Security people like the idea because they can test their equipment before installing it. It is said that lock picking is as old as locks and I like to think of the locks on chastity belts as having enhanced the art and developed some tools for it. Certainly the motivation was there. For more on this sport, click here and here.
Hackers in Israel are having a lot of fun challenging copyright programs to stop them. The latest is that one (known as Labba) claims to have found a way to be able to take anything off Kindle and place it on other media as a pdf file. It is the latest in a series of Digital Rights Management hacks, the most famous being the reverse engineering of iTunes. These stories of hacking remind me of Willie Sutton. Most of you probably aren't old enough to remember him. Click here. Read more....
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