Dmitry Sklyarov/Adobe
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Lending, printing, copying, giving
and text-to-speech are permissions
enabled by the publisher.  -- Adobe

To prevent unauthorized reading...
-- Adobe eBook Reader feature

Its really terrible when FBI arrested
hacker, who visited USA with peacefull
mission -- to share his knowledge with
american nation.  (Ilya V. Vasilyev)

Reading is a right, not a feature!
-- Kathryn Myronuk


other copyright, technology, freedom
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Having a whole generation of young
people grow up full of knowledge about engineering, computers, and networking
is a wonderful advance in the state of humanity.  [Some people] see it as a
drawback, since they depend on their customers being ignorant. -- John Gilmore

Very frankly, I am opposed to people
being programmed by others.
-- Fred Rogers (1928-2003),
464 U.S. 417, 445 (1984)

[S]aying you can't own a kitchen knife
because it could be used in a robbery
[...] would be preposterous.
-- Vans Stevenson, MPAA


privacy and politics
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When [bar code] scanners were coming out, everybody was saying, retailers
are going to collect information about what you buy.  And none of that
happened.  I think the situation with RFID is similar.    -- Scott McGregor

Terrorism is not a movement or an
ideology, but a military tactic.
-- Bruce Schneier, _Beyond Fear_


other
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What cryptographic systems lack in
subtlety, they make up for in malice.
-- Diffie and Fischer, in Parkinson

And do not say, I will study when I
have leisure; for perhaps you will
not have leisure.  -- Pirke Avot 2:5