nikon redux, noaa ban?

since my last post, nikon's encryption has been broken twice. engadget reports that both bibble labs and programmer dan coffin have reverse engineered the encryption, with coffin publishing the decryption code on his website. we'll see how this plays out, especially with how adobe uses/doesn't use the decryption workaround.

adding to my disdain of lobbyists and how easy it seems to buy a politician, slashdot reports that for-pay weather sites (i.e. accuweather) have lobbied senator rick santorum to introduce a bill that would prevent noaa from publishing its weather data for free on its website. who knew that having a government entity providing a free service to the public could be a bad thing. politicians for sale, anyone?