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[Sohcan]

 

[AGodspeed]

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.

This is, without a doubt, the most shocking piece of computer related news that I have every heard in my lifetime. I am so without words that I am feel like I am wasting time by simply writing, when I could be writing my Congressman and lobbying against this SSSCA law.

Thank you very much Sohcan, I will do everything in my miniscule power to help stop this from ever happening.

 

[RSMemphis]

BTW, most of it is not true.

http://gnu-darwin.sourceforge.net/sssca-draft.pdf

This is the bill.

Right on the SECOND page there is a HUGE EXCEPTION.

"... does not apply to the offer for sale or provision of ... if such device was legally manufactured or imported, and sold, prior to the effective date of regulations..."

This therefore excludes reselling from being illegal.

Also, the use is always legal - so you still build your own system, because the parts themselves are not interactive. It only applies to interactive things.

It also states "device", which therefore excludes all software, so no problem for Open Source, either.

People please READ the bills you are complaining about before. Although, I am still against this bill, but at least I have READ it.

I hope this gets locked.

 

[RSMemphis]

Here it is in HTML: http://cryptome.org/sssca.htm

Much easier to read.