[ls612]

DMCA 1201 says ANY decryption without permission from a copyright holder (with some exceptions that are in practice pretty minor) is a federal crime. Yet one more on the pile of "three felonies a day" to hold over the masses to keep them in line.

[fulafel]

If this was the case, reading your comment (when delivered over TLS in a relevant jurisdiction) would be one such crime.

[ls612]

It was decrypted on my authority as the author by virtue of whatever license the Hacker News TOS requires in order to store and transmit my posts to the public.