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Comment Re:Use to protect communications? (Score 1) 122

Actually, the bill does contain explicit exemptions to its digital locks provisions for the specific purposes of both law enforcement and computer/network security. If you can make a valid case that your decrypting somebody else's lock falls in one of those categories, you're fine.

Hmm, software like AnyDVD does allow you to run a malware scan on your media, and pre-recorded media have been sold with security-compromising software in the past: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_rootkit_scandal

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