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	~~'''Dimitri Sklyarov''' is a Russian programmer.~~		#REDIRECT [[Dmitry Sklyarov]]

	~~He was arrested in the US after giving a~~ [~~http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Adobe/Gallery/ds-defcon/sld001.htm presentation] at the~~ [[Defcon]] conference revealing that various products for allegedly securing electronic books were in fact [[snake oil (cryptography) \| extremely weak]]. He and his employer [[Elcomsoft]] were charged under the [[DMCA]] with distributing illegal tools to circumvent publishers' encryption technology. The case became a <i>cause celebre</i> for opponents of the DMCA. The [[Electronic Frontier Foundation]] have a [http://www.eff.org/cases/us-v-elcomsoft-sklyarov summary].