Haha. Regular people win either way. A federal court very recently ruled that source code is not speech, and thus not protected by the first amendment, and used this as the basis as to why source code for encryption can be controlled as a munition. If this person wins their case, that means that source code is speech, and thus protected, and thus encryption export controls are illegal. If this person loses their case, it means i can continue to name my variables "My_ex_girlfriend_stacy_is_a_ho" or whatever. --Dan

Has anyone considered that this article could be a hoax? A coworker of mine noticed that: Kirk> 1) Try searching for this company. It doesn't exist. Kirk> 2) There's no attribution for the article (i.e. no author, Kirk> publication, etc) Kirk> 3) Has anyone heard of ISDisk before? Kirk> 4) Dell has precious few programmers........they subcontract Kirk> most of their development work.