[ale] Revolution OS

[Geoffrey]

aaron wrote:
Worse is that
> provisions within these horrendous proposals all but designate by name 
> that the encryption scheme will be created by "private sector" corporate 
> media conglomerates and a computer software monopoly.


Someone on another list posted info regarding this and noted the 
'private sector' issue as well.  I found myself reading through the 
actual bill and came upon this section: (please note, inparticular #2)

(d) SECURITY SYSTEM STANDARDS- In achieving the goals of setting open 
security system standards that
will provide effective security for copyrighted works, the security 
system standards shall ensure, to the extent practicable, that--
(1) the standard security technologies are--
(A) reliable;
(B) renewable;
(C) resistant to attack;
(D) readily implemented;
(E) modular;
(F) applicable to multiple technology platforms;
(G) extensible;
(H) upgradable;
(I) not cost prohibitive; and
(2) any software portion of such standards is based on open source code.
(e) Encoding Rules-

Link to article regarding this bill:

http://www.linuxandmain.com/news/cbdtpa.html

Text of the bill:

http://www.linuxandmain.com/news/s2048.html

-- 
Until later: Geoffrey		esoteric at 3times25.net

I didn't have to buy my radio from a specific company to listen
to FM, why doesn't that apply to the Internet (anymore...)?


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