Michael Dinowitz wrote:
>"Under the theory articulated by the government, the transmission of any
>information that can be used by others to impair the integrity of a computer
>system (or cause loss of reputation) if done without authorization (and who
>would authorize it?) is a federal crime. "

This prohibits fixing bugs in Open Source software, because from the bugfix, people 
can see what the bug was.

I think this will cause even more OSS projects to set up in Canada or Europe.

Jochem
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