Oregon voters in Tigerd are reminded to consider that Oregon Legislature Representative and candidate Max Williams <http://www.leg.state.or.us/williams/home.htm> (R-Tigerd) introduced HB3910 <http://www.ala.org/washoff/ucita/oregon.html> to bring UCITA to Oregon. UCITA is the stealth campaign to legislate that software consumers lose basically all rights to expect any kind of quality in their purchases, and software vendors have the right to impose essentially arbitrary termso on consumers. Let Max know how you feel about that :) Note that this is not a Democratic vs. Republican issue, e.g. Democrat Fritz Hollings is advocating a different form <http://www.audiorevolution.com/news/0402/18.fritz.shtml> of legislated software evil. I'm highlighting Max Williams because he's the only Oregon candidate I know of with a significant position relating to cybersecurity, and it is not good. Crispin -- Crispin Cowan, Ph.D. Chief Scientist, WireX http://wirex.com/~crispin/ Security Hardened Linux Distribution: http://immunix.org Available for purchase: http://wirex.com/Products/Immunix/purchase.html
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