At 01:44 PM 9/19/00 -0400, A. Melon wrote:

PC with Corporate Secrets Disappears Qualcomm Chiefs Laptop Taken from Podium

Sept. 18, 2000

IRVINE, Calif. (AP) -- The personal portable [snip]

If security on Jacobs laptop was limited only to password

protection

_ rather than a more advanced encryption scheme -- "its extremely unlikely that it will take any more than removing the hard

drive and

hooking it up to another computer to read all the files,"

Abbott said. Doesn't the above message now constitute a crime under DMCA? Couldn't Microsoft and/or Qualcomm now bring charges against the AP for revealing how to circumvent their protection (sic) measures?