At 1:48 PM -0400 9/12/00, Michael Motyka wrote:
This has been around for a couple of years. It was started by a politician from San Jose who I think has some connection$ to a startup that makes a product called Halt. Golly, he wouldn't be abusing the public trust would he? A quick search didn't turn up either the SJMN article or anything else but it's there somewhere. Anyway, these are bad^H^H^H truly evil people^H^H^H^H^H^H scumbags. It's worth keeping an eye on them and trying to create publicity when the bill mutates and crawls out of the cesspool again. Which it will do annually until it is passed. I would doubt that voters would approve a measure like this if they knew enough about it. Generally it's limited publicity controlled by the proposers that lets this sort of garbage bloom.
Found something : http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a383094c56f00.htm
OK background. Discussion board. All predictable stuff.
When a bill is passed the sooner the system is hacked and the mfgrs are in the liability courts the better. I can't really say what I want to say about the company and the politicians...the sensors are everywhere.
There was some talk on the Cypherpunks list some years back. May be findable in the archives with Google. The political scumdroids will of course write liability exemptions into the laws. (Don't think they can do that? It's done a lot, especially when "it's for the children!!" gets invoked.) As for what should be done with such scumdroids and the legal pieces of shit who support their actions, I'm not afraid to say what should be done with them: more freedom fighters like McVeigh need to park trucks filled with ANFO in front of their dens. That, or biological and nerve agents. Wiping out several hundred in one legislative session would send a message. --Tim May -- ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, ComSec 3DES: 831-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, "Cyphernomicon" | black markets, collapse of governments.