Re: SSSCA: We're in trouble now

[Petro]

On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 04:42:14PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> >     Just about every company big enough to have a corporate lawyer, and
> >     many even smaller do have "media" they need or want to track and
> >     control. 
> 
> One thing the SSSCA people must consider here is security impact. If a 

    Huh? 

    We're talking politicians here. 

    We're talking about the kind of people who try to pass a law setting
    pi=3.14159 FULL STOP. 

    They don't have to consider jack shit. 

> document can be traced through its users then the ability of agencies to
> work against organised crime will be crippled. The SSSCA appears to have no
> provision to allow the FBI to remove watermarks, and makes it illegalf or
> other people to be subcontracted to write the tools
> Goodbye corporate whistleblowers, goodbye FBI plants in organised crime 
> bodies..

    They don't care about whistleblowers, and FBI agents can always used
    fake personalities. 

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