Are you a computer cracker?
Oct. 2nd, 2001 10:52 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ciphergothThe US Government propose to enact legislation that makes breaking into computer systems (sometimes inaccurately known as "hacking") a crime carrying a life sentence, without parole (http://www.securityfocus.com/news/257). Providing assistance to computer crackers (say, by publishing a cryptanalysis of a fielded system) carries the same sentence. Check the link below to see if you might be a computer cracker.
You are now.
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ERLA: End Reader License Agreement
The terms and conditions that follow set forth a legal agreement between you (either an individual or an entity), the end user, and Paul Crowley, relating to the computer messages known as "postings" and "email", as well as related technologies such as "Live Journal Postings". You may not load or use the message in any computer or copy it without a license from Paul Crowley. You should carefully read these terms and conditions BEFORE loading the message in software by any means (including loading the message on a Web browser to view it). Loading or using the message will signify your agreement to be bound by these terms and conditions. This is a license agreement and not an agreement for sale.
You further agree that this Agreement is the complete and exclusive statement of your agreement with the poster relating to the posted message and supersedes any other agreement, oral or written, or any other communications between you and the poster relating to the posted or emailed message; provided, however, that this Agreement shall not supersede the terms of any signed agreement between you and the poster relating to the posted or emailed message.
(Thanks to Jim Patrick <jpatrick@shentel.net> for the bulk of this text; I've edited it slightly. I don't know if this is applicable in the UK, but it will certainly work in any state where the evil UCITA (http://www.4cite.org/) has become law, such as Virginia.)
You are now.
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ERLA: End Reader License Agreement
The terms and conditions that follow set forth a legal agreement between you (either an individual or an entity), the end user, and Paul Crowley, relating to the computer messages known as "postings" and "email", as well as related technologies such as "Live Journal Postings". You may not load or use the message in any computer or copy it without a license from Paul Crowley. You should carefully read these terms and conditions BEFORE loading the message in software by any means (including loading the message on a Web browser to view it). Loading or using the message will signify your agreement to be bound by these terms and conditions. This is a license agreement and not an agreement for sale.
You further agree that this Agreement is the complete and exclusive statement of your agreement with the poster relating to the posted message and supersedes any other agreement, oral or written, or any other communications between you and the poster relating to the posted or emailed message; provided, however, that this Agreement shall not supersede the terms of any signed agreement between you and the poster relating to the posted or emailed message.
(Thanks to Jim Patrick <jpatrick@shentel.net> for the bulk of this text; I've edited it slightly. I don't know if this is applicable in the UK, but it will certainly work in any state where the evil UCITA (http://www.4cite.org/) has become law, such as Virginia.)
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Date: 2001-10-02 05:33 am (UTC)Their contracts specify that the end user has to be somehow pointed at the EULA and given a chance to back out before they switch on the machine, at least with PDAs etc (I've not seen any other MS contracts to compare them to).
A huge opaque sticker, completely covering the screen, with text saying "Read the EULA first!" seems to work nicely... :)