May 16, 2003
Student Who Examines Computing Secrecy Fears Prosecution Under New Law
A Michigan graduate student who studies how to hide online messages and detect hacking -- a field known as steganography -- has moved his research to a Web server in Europe out of fear that it may be illegal under a new Michigan law.
The graduate student, Niels Provos, says he moved his research from a Web server at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor to a server in the Netherlands because he is concerned about a Michigan copyright-protection law, Public Act 672, which
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