SSSCA =
http://www.politechbot.com/docs/hollings.090701.html

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

among other things....

Please fight this by any menas:
Petition = http://www.petitiononline.com/SSSCA/petition.html

Senate =
http://www.senate.gov/senators/senator_by_state.cfm

Represenatives =
http://www.house.gov/house/MemberWWW.html

http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.cfm?catid=27&threadid=728226&STARTPAGE=1
 

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."
 

[ 06 March 2002: Message edited by: John -- '02 HAWK ]