How I bypassed Amazon's Kindle web DRM

Re:How I bypassed Amazon's Kindle web DRM by tmoertel on Friday October 17, 2025 @07:11AM (#45615339)

Do you also remember the researcher Philip Zimmerman’s hack to get around the cryptography-is-munitions edict? The source code to PGP was published by MIT Press as a book that just happened to be in a format suitable for OCR. That framing made it into a First Amendment issue, one the researchers were confident they’d win in court.

https://archive.org/details/pgpsourcecodeint0000zimm

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Re:How I bypassed Amazon's Kindle web DRM by pjmlp on Friday October 17, 2025 @07:42AM (#45615569)

My university had that book, I think it can be used as a weapon actually, given its weight.

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Re:How I bypassed Amazon's Kindle web DRM by paufernandez on Friday October 17, 2025 @09:44AM (#45616752)

I wonder what kind of gun uses books as munition.

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Re:How I bypassed Amazon's Kindle web DRM by __alexs on Friday October 17, 2025 @11:42AM (#45618044)

This one https://fallout.fandom.com/wiki/Junk_Jet_(Fallout_4)

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Re:How I bypassed Amazon's Kindle web DRM by pjmlp on Friday October 17, 2025 @10:24AM (#45617147)

Human arms, projecting it into someone's else head as hard as they can. :)

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Re:How I bypassed Amazon's Kindle web DRM by lesuorac on Friday October 17, 2025 @10:19AM (#45617094)

Can't you stick about anything heavy to use as munitions for a cannon?

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Re:How I bypassed Amazon's Kindle web DRM by cratermoon on Friday October 17, 2025 @09:56AM (#45616878)

a librarigun

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Re:How I bypassed Amazon's Kindle web DRM by tclancy on Friday October 17, 2025 @11:35AM (#45617974)

Was a t shirt too. I regret not getting a hold of one back then.

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Re:How I bypassed Amazon's Kindle web DRM by somat on Friday October 17, 2025 @03:37PM (#45621070)

As far as legal hacks go I always liked xkcd joke on the matter.

https://xkcd.com/504/

If it is a munition the US government has limitations on it's actions controlling it covered under the 2nd amendment to the constitution.

In reality it nor the first amendment(freedom of speech) hack probably would not work. The limitation was on exporting strong crypto, not using or importing it. It was stupid and impossible to control. But I would guess any charges would be espionage(illegal speech) and smuggling(illegal goods). regardless of how you packaged it.

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