CDR: Re: Qualcomm CEO loses laptop - AP article illegal under DMCA?

[Kerry L. Bonin]

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?