1. Give me back my rights to fair use for copyrighted materials. If I buy the rights to view a movie, I should be allowed to copy that movie to ensure that I can always access said movie. CSS is just a way of controlling distribution, not the copying. (Sell it for $20 in the US, but release it 2 years later in Europe for $50.)
2. The security industry can sort these issues out. Let the free market be free, and follow it's lead.
3. Kill the DCMA. Enough said!
4. Stop pandering to the lobbists from the RIAA and friends. Tell them to take a hike!
5. Remove the ability of software houses to foist crap on us without warranty. Where would we be if we treated cars the same way as software? The software industry has known how to prevent security problems since the 70's. Input validation, and bounds checking. The only reason they don't is because they are either lazy or have an unrealistic project timeline, making them take shortcuts.
6. Live by the same rules you enfore on others. For example; Why isn't congress forced to contribute to SS? If the rules are good enough for US, then they are good enough for you.
7. Kill the key escrow idea once and for all. A bad idea revisited, is still a bad idea. You can't get the horse back into the barn!
8. Hacking isn't terrorism! Leave it alone.
9. Enforce the laws we already have instead of creating new ones!
10. Reign in John Ashcroft. He's on a spree of killing all our rights in the name of terrorism. To paraphrase Ben Franklin, I think: "People who would give up their freedom for security deserve neither." The burden of living in a free society is dealing with those who would abuse their freedoms. Deal with it!
11. And exactly how are you going to enforce our anti-hacking laws on other countries? We maybe a great nation, but Congresses jurisdiction, according to our Constitution, remains to be those things not controlled by the States, and the borders of the United States. Maybe a civics class is in order for our Congresspersons.
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1. Give me back my rights to fair use for copyrighted materials. If I buy the rights to view a movie, I should be allowed to copy that movie to ensure that I can always access said movie. CSS is just a way of controlling distribution, not the copying. (Sell it for $20 in the US, but release it 2 years later in Europe for $50.)
2. The security industry can sort these issues out. Let the free market be free, and follow it's lead.
3. Kill the DCMA. Enough said!
4. Stop pandering to the lobbists from the RIAA and friends. Tell them to take a hike!
5. Remove the ability of software houses to foist crap on us without warranty. Where would we be if we treated cars the same way as software? The software industry has known how to prevent security problems since the 70's. Input validation, and bounds checking. The only reason they don't is because they are either lazy or have an unrealistic project timeline, making them take shortcuts.
6. Live by the same rules you enfore on others. For example; Why isn't congress forced to contribute to SS? If the rules are good enough for US, then they are good enough for you.
7. Kill the key escrow idea once and for all. A bad idea revisited, is still a bad idea. You can't get the horse back into the barn!
8. Hacking isn't terrorism! Leave it alone.
9. Enforce the laws we already have instead of creating new ones!
10. Reign in John Ashcroft. He's on a spree of killing all our rights in the name of terrorism. To paraphrase Ben Franklin, I think: "People who would give up their freedom for security deserve neither." The burden of living in a free society is dealing with those who would abuse their freedoms. Deal with it!
11. And exactly how are you going to enforce our anti-hacking laws on other countries? We maybe a great nation, but Congresses jurisdiction, according to our Constitution, remains to be those things not controlled by the States, and the borders of the United States. Maybe a civics class is in order for our Congresspersons.