For those who are not familiar with the SSSCA
("Security Systems Standards and Certification Act"):"Draft Bill Would Require All Software and Digital Devices to Include Federally-Mandated Copy-Prevention Systems" http://www.eff.org/alerts/20010921_eff_sssca_alert.html And here is the actual text of the bill: http://cryptome.org/sssca.htm John Hebert --- Shannon Roddy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2002-03-04 at 12:11, John Hebert wrote: > > > The FTC announcement is a better recipient of > generic > > spam complaints. If the FTC starts receiving > millions > > of spam reports daily, I think they were begin to > take > > it seriously and possibly help the congress dweebs > to > > understand the nature of the problem. > > I'm afraid that anything that is more complicated > than a TV remote is > over our congress critters heads. At least it seems > that way when we > have idiots like Fritz Hollings (a traitor to his > constituents and > America if you ask me) selling out the American > citizens and the entire > IT industry (not to mention researchers at > universities) to Hollywood. > The SSSCA bill will be the worst legislation I have > ever seen if it goes > through. Unfortunately Fritz is not up for > reelection until 2004. > > Shannon > > > -- > __________________________________________________________________ > Shannon Roddy California Institute > of Technology > [EMAIL PROTECTED] LIGO Livingston > Observatory > ph: (225)686-3106 19100 LIGO Lane > fx: (225)686-7189 Livingston, LA 70754 > ================================================ > BRLUG - The Baton Rouge Linux User Group > Visit http://www.brlug.net for more information. > Send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to change > your subscription information. > ================================================ __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Sports - sign up for Fantasy Baseball http://sports.yahoo.com ================================================ BRLUG - The Baton Rouge Linux User Group Visit http://www.brlug.net for more information. Send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to change your subscription information. ================================================
