The Security Systems Standards and Certification Act (SSSCA), And it will make it : * illegal to Assemble a home-built PC. * illegal to use a non-secure computer (ie, a computer built before the would-be implementation of the SSSCA) on a network. * illegal for Widespread development of open-sourced (non-copyrighted) and "digitally unsigned" software. * Illegal to Use of open-sourced software (essentially the entire software platform for the UNIX and Linux operating systems, on which Computer Science research relies). * Illegal for University and corporate research on systems, debugging, security, and watermarking
SSSCA Hearings Postponed Under Heavy OppositionPosted by Hemos on Friday October 26, @07:16AM from the get-out-and-write dept. Concerned Citizen writes "Both the EFF and WIAFLW are reporting that the " Senate Commerce Committee's hearings on the Security Systems Standards and Certification Act (SSSCA or DMCA-2) which had been originally schedule for today (Oct. 25, 2001) have been postponed due to mounting opposition, particularly from those in the tech community." Senator Fritz Hollings has yet to reschedule a hearing (it's likely that he won't), and has also indicated that he would consider modifying the bill."
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