Re: SSSCA


Subject: Re: SSSCA
From: Anthony Valentine (amv@akvalentine.com)
Date: Sun Mar 03 2002 - 17:54:59 AKST


I can't possibly express how much this bothers me. I think that we, as
a group, need to contact Sen. Stevens and let him know that this is
unacceptable. We need to try to make him understand why it is bad.

Anthony

On Sun, 2002-03-03 at 17:30, Scott Johnson wrote:
>
> Whoops... should probably include some more information.
>
> Apparently, "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."
>
> See also:
>
> http://www.marketwatch.com/news/yhoo/story.asp?source=blq/yhoo&siteid=yhoo&d
> ist=yhoo&guid=%7BCC92A3EB-B59F-41F6-840C-4D224E765A2E%7D
>
> http://www.bayarea.com/mld/bayarea/business/2764054.htm
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Scott Johnson" <sjohnson@gci.net>
> To: "Aklug" <aklug@aklug.org>
> Sent: 03 March, 2002 17:24
> Subject: SSSCA
>
>
> >
> > Anyone heard of this legislation that Sen. Stevens is apparently backing?
> >
> > http://www.politechbot.com/docs/hollings.090701.html
> >
> >
>
>



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