[ale] SSSCA rears its (ugly) head once more

[Mike Millson]

Maybe they will set up those huts like they have for vehicle emmissions
testing. We could load up our computers and drive to one of those huts to
have our hard drives tested. Then we could mail in the certificate we get
from the hut and get a decal that we can afix to the case of our computer so
people will know we are law abiding citizens. Probably they will simplify it
by only requiring it on an odd/even year basis depending on when the hard
drive was manufactured.

Mike ;-)

-----Original Message-----
From: Eric Webb [mailto:ttlchaos at randomc.com]
To: ale at ale.org
Sent: Friday, March 01, 2002 6:54 PM
To: ale at ale.org
Subject: Re: [ale] SSSCA rears its (ugly) head once more


On Friday 01 March 2002 01:51 pm, you wrote:
> If you haven't heard of it, the SSSCA (Security Systems Standards
> Certification Act) would mandate that all new hard drives contain an
> as-yet-undecided copy-protection scheme. Buying or selling a new drive
> which was not so crippled would be a crime.  It  would also be a crime
> to tamper with the copy-protection hardware or software on a disk drive.
> Up to a half-million dollar fine or five years in jail for the first
> offfense. This ain't law yet, but the time to act is now.

Who the hell is going to know if you tamper with it, or is there also some
kind of provision for monitoring my hard drive...?  Will there be required
yearly testings to verify that your hard drive is still untampered?  How can
they expect to enforce such stupidity?


-E.

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