[gmx-users] Scary news about the SSSCA...

[Patrick Ladam]

Hi members,

This is out of topic but I received this mail from the yellowDogLinux mail list
and feel that
I have to forward it to other people.
This news sounds like a scary threat to the open-source world if not about
freedom...

Please spread the news....

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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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Other links about this topic:
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A few links for the people who don't know:

# Original draft
http://cryptome.org/sssca.htm

# Various mentions at LWN
http://lwn.net/2001/0927/a/crypto-gram.php3
http://lwn.net/2001/1025/press.php3

# See the Slashdot articles
http://slashdot.org/search.pl?query=SSSCA

# EFF stanmdpoints and info.  Search around EFF.org as well
http://www.eff.org/Legal/active_legal.html

# RedHat's postion Paper
http://www.redhat.com/opensourcenow/article2.html

Thanks for reading


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