Subject: Re: SSSCA will make open source illegal in the US
From: Ryan Mesler (kraylus@airmail.net)
Date: Tue Mar 05 2002 - 17:16:53 MST
are you sure this is even real? it sounds pretty fake...
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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