Subject: Re: SSSCA will make open source illegal in the US
From: Jim Potter (jrp@wvi.com)
Date: Tue Mar 05 2002 - 17:30:40 MST
It's real. Very Very Real.
> are you sure this is even real? it sounds pretty fake...
>
> R.L. Mesler <Kraylus>
> Call me Kray
>
> If at first you don't succeed, call it version 1.0
>
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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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-- Sincerely,Jim Potter 45th Parallel Processing (503) 769-9138 jrp@wvi.com
Those that would give up a necessary freedom for temporary safety deserve neither freedom nor safety. -- Ben Franklin
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