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The SSSCA

by Steve Gibson, Mar 02, 2002 3:25pm PST
Related Topics – Nerdy News

Ok 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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  • Wishful thinking on behalf of RIAA/MPAA. They won't be able to push this through without causing a revolution. If congress is foolish enough to pass this bill there will certainly be assassinations of certain politicians and lobbyists left and right, collapses of industries, people fleeing out of countries supporting these kinds of laws. I seriously doubt that this trash can indeed be made into a law. In case we fail to stop its integration into our society, we may as well erect a huge tombstone saying "Slaves of the few rich mofos, betrayed by our leaders." in honor of our obsolete, decaying civilization.