Our friends on the other side of the Atlantic

[Ken Brown]

Our friends on the other side of the Atlantic are being presented with a
new attempt pass a law allowing the large media corporations to control
what people do with their computers,  according to
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,46655,00.html

Apparently this proposed law would make it illegal to create, sell or
distribute "any interactive digital device that does not include and
utilize certified  security technologies" that are approved by the U.S.
Commerce Department. An interactive digital device is defined as any
hardware or software capable of "storing, retrieving, processing,
performing, transmitting, receiving or copying information in digital
form." 

When I first saw this I thought it might be a joke. it is hard to
imagine it ever becoming law. But then it was hard to imagine the DMCA
ever becoming a law in a country that supposedly has freedom of speech
written into its constitution.

Posted to UKcrypto because the poodles in Cheltenham will undoubtedly
get their friends in Westminster to do anything that the US tells them
to.

Ken Brown