The SSSCA
by Steve Gibson, Mar 02, 2002 3:25pm PSTOk I thought this was some kind of fake after reading the first message about it, but get a load of this latest so called legislation you can read about on USA Today , this HardForum post, this BayArea article, or this AnandTech post. It's the SSSCA and well, get this:
The SSSCA, among other things, will make the following illegal: * Assembling a home-built PC. * Using a non-secure computer (ie, a computer built before the would-be implementation of the SSSCA) on a network. * Widespread development of open-sourced (non-copyrighted and digitally unsigned? software. * Use of open-sourced software (essentially the entire software platform for the UNIX and Linux operating systems, on which Computer Science research relies). * University and corporate research on systems, debugging, security, and watermarking.Sounds like a winner! Thanks James St. Don
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-Erik
If Pro is the opposite of Con, what's the opposite of PROgress?
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I don't mean to turn this into a political rag either, but, good grief, always liberal democrats doing this kind of sh*t. More government = better! Yeah right. They can kiss my @ss. I hope there are some people from South Carolina with some sense around somewhere and vote the fool out of office.
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Man, I saw this comming years ago...you have your electric bill, your taxes, and YOUR ENTERTAINMENT BILL...Honey, it's your birthday today, we can either let you watch this Saturday morning's cartoons or go out to eat, not both.
I myself will continue to build my PC any way I want
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The people are speaking!
-Erik
If by some fluke it's real, and it's passed.. there's lots of room for you tech-savvy users in Canadia. :)
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Fucking commies.
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Hi BOB
I've got a great idea BOB
What's that BOB
Let's ban computers, BOB!
That is a great idea BOB!
Yay for BOB!
*Both BOBs are SSSCA*
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maybe smart1 talked about the wrong country
I thought the USA is the country of freedom, the shining beacon upon a hill. It rather looks like a prison in the desert.
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I feel special. :)
You know why U.S. citizens have the right to bear arms? So legislation like this doesn't get passed.
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These laws will never make it through supreme courts approval.
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Canada is crazy when it comes to taxes but sometimes it doesn't look so bad.
Completely un-implementable.
The drafters of the bill just don't understand how computers work. By their nature they copy. It would be mind numbingly impossible to roll out technology like this even within a five year time-span, let alone legacy phase outs of ten to twenty years. If the bill passed today, how would they enforce? The government would be immediately breaking the law! There is no standard for digital rights management. Even if there was, ONE crack, since it's going to be tied eventually to a central database, renders the entire infrastructure worthless. It's equivalent to inventing AI, and not watching computers progress beyond us.
So just watch them hammer this out. It'll be amusing to say the least.
-I
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