Subject: SSSCA will make open source illegal in the US
From: Ralph Wiggums (ralphwiggums@linuxwaves.com)
Date: Tue Mar 05 2002 - 17:04:29 MST
Sorry for the crosspost but everyone needs to be very concerned about this
proposed bill
Read more about it here http://www.xs4all.nl/~lennartb/sssca.html
The Security Systems Standards and Certification Act will make the following
illegal
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.
* All VCRs, DVDs, and pretty much every current digital hardware will be
banned and considered illegal
Please sign the petition and write your congressman and senator
http://www.petitiononline.com/SSSCA/petition.html
Plz post this in all newgroups and internet forums u belong to we need to
spread the word
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