Subject: Re: SSSCA will make open source illegal in the US
From: Ryan Mesler (kraylus@airmail.net)
Date: Tue Mar 05 2002 - 17:14:20 MST
right... and remember that bill that the post office wanted to pass? the one
with the fees per email sent...? right... that's gonna happen.
if it does, then we're in a world of hurt and the people that run this
country are gonna be sorry. hey, i know! let's start a fight club and kick
their asses!
R.L. Mesler <Kraylus>
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Ralph Wiggums" <ralphwiggums@linuxwaves.com>
To: <yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com>
Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2002 6:04 PM
Subject: SSSCA will make open source illegal in the US
> 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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