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Omniscience Protocol

Posted by michael on from the axis-of-evil dept.

solidox writes "There is a new RFC discussing the Omniscience Protocol. It proposes that every computer be installed with an OP Client which would allow law enforcement ('Good guys.') and copyright holders (RIAA, MPAA) to remotely destroy the computer of any user who has been involved in copyright infringement ('evil-doer'). The client will be completely undetectable and unremovable by even the most skilled hacker. It also must be able to report to the server at any time. 'The OP must be able to communicate through uncooperative firewalls, NATs, and when the computer is disconnected from the Internet.' So if your computer randomly blows up in the next while, you can put the blame on this."

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  1. Mod Parent Down -1: DUMBASS by Trolling4Columbine · · Score: -1, Troll

    Did your mother have any children that lived?

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  2. MOD GRANDPARENT UP: +5, TINFOIL ARCHIVED FOREVAH! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    It will get deleted if modded down, so mod him up, and allow his idiocy to be archived forever.

  3. Re:oh please by Kiryat+Malachi · · Score: 0, Troll

    A brain.

    Also, its a pitiful attempt at an April Fool's Joke. Of course, its slashdot, so the author probably thought they were being hilarious.

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  4. In Soviet Russia by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    You fool April.

  5. Re:goddamn, this isn't FUNNY, it's STUPID! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Slashdot will never bother posting a story about goatse, because they don't give a rat's ass about freedom of speech. All they care about is getting people to read the site and click on the banners, and goatse hurts that. No April fools joke, just the truth.

  6. In Soviet Russia.... by NoMercy · · Score: -1, Troll

    I think they had this... ...is that were were headed

  7. Fuck everybody. Fuckers!!! by rice_burners_suck · · Score: -1, Troll
    IBM, Dell, Gateway, and HP recently had meetings about including explosives inside computers, along with a built-in wireless communication device that acts like the pagers that gangsters had in the early 90's did, except that instead of beeping and displaying the phone number of someone who called you, it will cause the explosives to go off, destroying the computer.

    The idea is to prevent piracy of valuable intellectual property. Under U.S. law, all works are copyrighted by their creator upon creation, unless signed over to someone else through employment or some other agreement. Because of this, if you copy a file that YOU created from one directory to another in YOUR computer, it will inform the FBI and trigger the explosives... after all, you have just made a COPY of a COPYRIGHTED work.

    Fuck the RIAA. Fuck the MPAA. Fuck Microsoft. Fuck SCO. Fuck, fuck, fuck!!!!!