Re (tilly) 4: The SSSCA, All your bits are belong to us?

A significant detail which I am surprised that nobody has been commenting on. The SSSCA is not a copyright bill. People have mentioned that it doesn't say "fair use". It doesn't have to.

IANAL, but after several readings I think that this is all justified under the Commerce Clause.

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(ichimunki) re x 6: The SSSCA, All your bits are belong to us? by ichimunki (Priest) on Sep 11, 2001 at 19:51 UTC
And oddly enough, the bill seems mostly directed at copyright protection. At best this is legal teeth for security by obscurity. I'd like to see this bill have additional segments that lay out strict liabilities for faulty security devices. In fact, I think we need a software production liabilities act (proprietary software gets to limit its warranty by what reasoning again?) long before we need this crappy security bill.	[reply]

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by ichimunki (Priest) on Sep 11, 2001 at 19:51 UTC

And oddly enough, the bill seems mostly directed at copyright protection. At best this is legal teeth for security by obscurity. I'd like to see this bill have additional segments that lay out strict liabilities for faulty security devices. In fact, I think we need a software production liabilities act (proprietary software gets to limit its warranty by what reasoning again?) long before we need this crappy security bill.

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