-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 08 December 2002 10:16 am, dep wrote: > 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.
Fritz is well named, although the expression is "on the". - -- Robert Black Eagle I prefer a good cat over a bad person. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE987UBtjSYKkYJrmcRArbkAJ4jdq5unT7bifEiOEjWYkW0yKz6aACgin8y t8wwXLt/YGni5d3lHnnX8W0= =isIp -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
