[Ach] (slightly off topic but) good article on Arstechnica on crypto patents and patent trolls

[Aaron Zauner]

In case you’re wondering - Newegg lost the trial: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/11/jury-newegg-infringes-spangenberg-patent-must-pay-2-3-million/


On 26 Nov 2013, at 15:08, L. Aaron Kaplan <kaplan at cert.at> wrote:

> 
> '"We've heard a good bit in this courtroom about public key encryption," said Albright. "Are you familiar with that?"
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> "Yes, I am," said Diffie, in what surely qualified as the biggest understatement of the trial.'
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> ;-)
> http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/11/newegg-trial-crypto-legend-diffie-takes-the-stand-to-knock-out-patent/
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> Very interesting article in case you have a little bit of time to read it.
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> a.
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