] From: David Yaskin [dyaskin@BLACKBOARD.COM]
] Subject: Re: very troubling behavior by Blackboard Inc.

] At issue were the actions of a person working for a
] competitor who committed a physical crime and put
] many nonprofit academic institutions in potential
] jeopardy. Without going into too much detail,
] working for a competitor, an individual
] physically broke into hardware components belonging
] to a university solely to publicly distribute
] information that could enable a select group to
] falsify security events and financial transactions,
] putting the general public and approximately 275
] academic institutions in potential jeopardy.

Who? What is the string you are holding on to in order to keep calling this commercial speech..

] It is this harm, coupled with the safety of these
] academic institutions and their constituents (primarily,
] students and faculty) that mandated Blackboard take a
] very careful and measured stance. Recognizing that
] this is a crime with potentially very harmful results,
] we took a position to protect our clients.

Careful and measured, eh?

] Blackboard recognizes that the Hacker Community plays
] an integral role in assisting technology companies in
] improving their offerings, most notably around security.
] I thought the user community might find this
] clarification of value.

Hmm.. Would you care to extend that "clarification of value" to sections 5, 7, 9, 10, and 16 of the legal complaint? If you do infact believe the Hacker Community (thanks for the caps Dave) plays an integral role in assisting technology companies in improving their offerings, you may not want to play a role in forcing it underground.

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