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.