begin Robert Black Eagle's quote: | And the last issue is why some geeks, hackers and just plain end | users are joining an effort to get a large enough lobbying group to | keep Congress from trying to control everything about the Internet | and our personal computers. They're still trying to force everyone | to buy what they misname "secure" computers (a secure computer is | one that allows the government to snoop on every computer user | connected to a modem, DSL, or WebTV and would outlaw opensource -- | secure for government snoops and no one else). So far enormous | efforts have kept this bizarre notion off the floor or being | soundly defeated everytime it's come up.
fwiw, this thing is the brainchild of sen. fritz hollings (d-sc), a stooge of the riaa. it hasn't made it out of committee because fritz is a.) a democrat and b.) a nut job. but it is certainly worth being vigilant about. -- dep http://www.linuxandmain.com -- outside the box, barely within the envelope, and no animated paperclip anywhere. _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
