Re: Graduate Students Unlock Code of 'Thiefproof' Car Key

From: Bob Harris (plasticnitlion_at_wrappermindspring.com)
Date: 01/30/05 

Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 14:12:58 GMT

MrPepper11 wrote:
>> Graduate Cryptographers Unlock Code of 'Thiefproof' Car Key
>> By JOHN SCHWARTZ

and Mr Nobody replied:
> I thought it was against the (US) law to try to crack codes like this,
> or does that only apply to copy-protection on DVDs and the like?

Maybe the difference is that there's no "intellectual" property being
protected by the car key. Only a car which can't be duplicated. The
government suffers no loss when a car is stolen. If 1,000 copies of a DVD
are made, the government loses tax revenue.

Bob H