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Happy Yellow Pig Day, and happy birthday to Cory.
Dmitry Sklyarov was arrested one year ago today (on July 17, 2001). Now he is free. It didn't have to turn out that way. Dmitry started off as a "Russian hacker" -- an archetype inspiring considerable fear in many people.
(We should distinguish computer security and copyright enforcement, so that we should speak of "computer security and l'havdil copyright enforcement" -- but I have to say that I'm reminded of Feynman's story about how people reacted when he learned to pick the locks at Los Alamos. They decided to keep him away from their locks: "That was their solution: I was the danger!")
Today Dmitry Sklyarov is many other things to many other people -- a folk hero, a subject of songs and poetry, a name to conjure with, an example in terrorem deterring attacks on DRM, an example held up in white papers and cited in court cases, a graduate student, a father. He is also a free man. It didn't have to turn out that way.
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