Infobox Company company name ElcomSoft Co.Ltd. company logo Image Elcomsoft.png company type Private company Private foundation 1990 location Moscow , Russia industry Software homepage http www.elcomsoft.com www.ElcomSoft.com ElcomSoft is a Russia n computer software company specializing in computer security and data recovery applications. Popular products include their eBook processing and password recovery software supporting many of Microsoft s products. ElcomSoft is also a co founder of the Independent Software Developers Forum ISDEF . ElcomSoft has filed several patents in the USA. One of them is for the company s proprietary technology Thunder Tables. The DMCA case main article US v. ElcomSoft Sklyarov On July 16, 2001, Dmitry Sklyarov , a Russian citizen employed by ElcomSoft who was at the time visiting the United States for DEF CON convention DEF CON , was arrested and jailed for allegedly violating the United States DMCA law by writing ElcomSoft s Advanced eBook Processor software. A landmark court case ensued, setting precedents and attracting much public attention and protest. On December 17, 2002, ElcomSoft was found not guilty of all four charges under the DMCA. Bruce Chizen , CEO of Adobe Systems , had this to say to CNET ref http www.elcomsoft.com aebpr.html ELCOMSOFT Advanced eBook Processing Software Bot generated title ref blockquote Looking back with 20 20, I wish that we could have had better communication with ElcomSoft, Dmitry Sklyarov and the EFF Electronic Frontier Foundation before the whole thing went public. I m sorry that we weren t able to do that, because I think we could have resolved a lot of the issues. blockquote Canon cameras On November 30, 2010, Elcomsoft announced that the encryption system used by Canon cameras to ensure that pictures and EXIF metadata have not been altered was flawed and cannot be fixed. ref http elcomsoft.com news ... canon.html ref References references External links http www.elcomsoft.com ElcomSoft s website ... more details
Refimprove date September 2008 Infobox Court Case name U.S. v. ElcomSoft and Dmitry Sklyarov court U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California , San Jose Division image imagesize caption full name United States of America versus Elcom Ltd., also known as ElcomSoft Co. Ltd., and Dmitry Sklyarov date decided ElcomSoft acquitted by a federal jury on December 17, 2002 citations transcripts judges prior actions Dmitry Sklyarov dropped from prosecution in exchange for agreeing to testify and to leave the U.S. subsequent actions opinions United States v. ElcomSoft and Dmitry Sklyarov was a 2001 2 criminal case in which Dmitry Sklyarov and his employer ElcomSoft were charged with trafficking in, and offering to the public, a software program that could circumvent technological protections on copyrighted material, in violation of http www.law.cornell.edu uscode 17 usc sec 17 00001201 000 .html Section 1201 b 1 A & C of Title 17 of the United States Code the Copyright Act s, including most of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act , as well as http www.law.cornell.edu uscode 18 usc ... Sklyarov , a Russian citizen employed by the Russian company ElcomSoft who was at the time visiting ... States Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 by writing ElcomSoft s Advanced eBook Processor ... e book file format were being illegally circumvented by ElcomSoft s product. Adobe withdrew its .... ElcomSoft s product, and thus presumably the efforts of its employees including Sklyarov, were entirely ..., after a two week trial, a federal jury found ElcomSoft not guilty of all four charges under the DMCA ... , cite web url http www.eff.org cases us v elcomsoft sklyarov faq Jurisdiction title Can the US even have jurisdiction over Dmitry and or ElcomSoft for developing software in Russia that is perfectly ... elcomsoft sklyarov faq Frequently Asked Questions about US v. ElcomSoft Sklyarov from the Electronic .... Category Copyright case law Sklyarov, ElcomSoft, Adobe, and the DMCA Category Computer and Telecom ... more details
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release. However, Adobe still supports the case against ElcomSoft. After Sklyarov was arrested he was held .... On December 18, 2002 following a two week trial in San Jose, California, a jury found that Elcomsoft ... elcomsoftqa.html Adobe FAQ on this case http www.eff.org IP DMCA US v Elcomsoft us v elcomsoft faq.html ... more details
BlackBerry vulnerability In September 2010, ElcomSoft announced a password cracking utility for Research In Motion BlackBerry mobile devices that takes advantage of what Vladimir Katalov, ElcomSoft s CEO ... more details
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to conventional CPUs ref cite new url http www.zdnet.com blog hardware elcomsoft uses nvidia gpus to speed up wpawpa2 brute force attack 2724 title ElcomSoft uses NVIDIA GPUs to Speed up WPA WPA2 ... http www.symantec.com connect blogs elcomsoft debuts graphics processing unit gpu password recovery advancement title Elcomsoft Debuts Graphics Processing Unit GPU Password Recovery Advancement author ... more details
cleanup date January 2010 The Electronic Frontier Foundation is regularly invlolved in litigation, the following is a list of cases that have to some degree involved the EFF Analog Hole Macrovision v. Sima Anonymity Burd v. Cole Doe v. Cahill Dominick v. MySpace E. Van Cullens v. John Doe First Cash v. John Doe Fix Wilson Yard v. City of Chicago Manalapan v. Moskovitz Merkey v. Yahoo SCOX, Groklaw et. al. Mobilisa v. Doe RIAA v. Verizon Case Archive USA Technologies v. Stokklerk Bloggers Rights Apple v. Does Barrett v. Rosenthal Eli Lilly Zyprexa Litigation Online Policy Group v. Diebold Spocko and ABC KSFO Broadcast Flag ALA v. FCC Coders Rights Project Bernstein v. US Department of Justice Blizzard v. BNETD Chamberlain Group, Inc. v. Skylink Technologies, Inc. In Re Matter of Search Warrant Boston College Lexmark v. Static Control Case Archive MBTA v. Anderson OdioWorks v Apple US v. ElcomSoft Sklyarov CyberSLAPP Ampex v. Cargle Case Archive Burd v. Cole Doe v. Cahill E. Van Cullens v. John Doe First Cash v. John Doe Merkey v. Yahoo SCOX, Groklaw et. al. Mobilisa v. Doe Naas v. Anonymizer et al. Digital Rights Management 2006 DMCA Rulemaking Macrovision v. Sima RealNetworks v. DVD CCA RealDVD case Sony BMG Litigation Info US v. ElcomSoft Sklyarov Digital Video Macrovision v. Sima Paramount v. ReplayTV DMCA Blizzard v. BNETD Chamber of Commerce v. Servin Chamberlain Group, Inc. v. Skylink Technologies, Inc. Lexmark v. Static Control Case Archive Macrovision v. Sima Marvel v. NCSoft RealNetworks v. DVD CCA RealDVD case RIAA v. Charter Communications Archive RIAA v. Verizon Case Archive StorageTek v. Custom Hardware DMCA Rulemaking 2000 DMCA Rulemaking 2003 DMCA Rulemaking 2006 DMCA Rulemaking 2009 DMCA Rulemaking E Voting Rights Diebold v. North Carolina Board of Elections National Federation of the Blind v. Volusia County Online Policy Group v. Diebold Sarasota County Re vote Filing White v. Blackwell Creating True Verifiability in a Battleground State File Sharing ... more details
Against Russian National ref While working for ElcomSoft in Russia, he developed The Advanced eBook ... pressroom pressreleases 200108 elcomsoftqa.html Adobe FAQ ElcomSoft legal background ref Paradoxically ..., Inc. Universal v. Reimerdes Dmitry Sklyarov in United States v. ElcomSoft and Sklyarov Lexmark Int ... more details
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