Re: [Full-Disclosure] House approves spyware legislation

["Jason Coombs PivX Solutions" <jasonc@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

The only thing this anti-spyware legislation does is protect companies from 
civil lawsuits for creating and deploying spyware or otherwise exceeding their 
authorization to make changes to and access the computers of you and me.

Police are never going to hunt and kill the companies and people who are 
responsible for spyware. The elements of the 'spyware' crime as defined by the 
proposed legislation are by definition a civil dispute. It does not matter if a 
bad site launches spyware when it is visited - because the act of visiting can 
itself be permission to install spyware.

Java applets and other things already autoinstall without warning. You cannot 
seriously believe that companies responsible for spyware will not point this 
out in their own defense.

Read the legislation. It is a sham that is blatantly designed to protect bad 
companies from financial ruin for the harm they are causing to people.

... Just another terrible abuse of people's ignorance of complex technical 
subject matter like spyware and complex, highly-evolved, often arbitrary, 
social systems such as the law.

Sincerely,

Jason Coombs
jasonc@xxxxxxxxxxx

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