I found this story on kerneldump.com
Read this:
http://cryptome.org/sssca.htm
In a nutshell, it would outlaw...
* Assembling a home-built PC.
* Using a non-secure computer (ie, a computer built before the would-be implementation of the SSSCA) on a network.
* Widespread development of open-sourced (non-copyrighted and ?digitally unsigned?) software.
* Use of open-sourced software (essentially the entire software platform for the UNIX and Linux operating systems, on which Computer Science research relies).
* University and corporate research on systems, debugging, security, and watermarking.
I suggest you sign this now:
http://www.petitiononline.com/SSSCA/petition.html
before this bill even gets off the fscking ground.