From: Bruce Satow (satow@ssl.berkeley.edu)
Date: Thu Dec 20 2001 - 12:00:23 PST
Dear Folks,
A new bill is being introduced into congress called the SSSCA, or the
Security Systems Standards and Certification Act.
This new bill now in working draft form, if passed, would force all
digital devices and software sold in the US to have government approved
'policeware' built in and if you remove or disable the 'policeware' you
could face up to 5 years in prison and a $500,000 fine.
The question is if this bill does pass how are they going to monitor and
enforce this kind of law?
The only way I can see such a law being enforced is to have the ability
of accessing devices such as computers remotely.
If you have the time and opportunity please go to this website and read
about this pending bill.
There is an online petition you can sign so that the government can get
a heads up on who to screw over first.
-- Bruce Satow Programmer/Analyst Space Physics Research Group Space Sciences Laboratory University of California Berkeley, California 94720-7450 USAemail: satow@ssl.berkeley.edu voice: (510) 643-2348 fax: (510) 643-8302 URL: http://sprg.ssl.berkeley.edu/~satow
"War doesn't determine who is right. War determines who is left."
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