Proposed Legislation Significantly Affecting Computer Profession(43495) (fwd)

[Sandino Araico Sánchez]

>
> We are most concerned about aspects of two proposed bills, the
> Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA) and the Security Systems Standards and
> Certification Act (SSSCA), and how they interact with existing legislation
> such as the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act and the Digital Millennium
> Copyright Act.  The ATA redefines virtually all computer crime as
> terrorism, enlarges the maximum penalty to life in prison without parole,
> allows broad pre-conviction seizures, and, furthermore, does this
> retroactively, removing the existing statute of limitations.  The SSSCA
> essentially mandates copyright protection in all digital consumer devices
> and makes disabling or avoidance of copyright mechanisms a felony offense.
>
>

¿Y esto cómo nos afecta a los mexicanos en cuestión de tratados
internacionales?


--
Sandino Araico Sánchez
EVIL is LIVE spelled backwards.
-- Anton LaVey



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