Microsoft Helps Write Oklahoma's Anti-Spyware Law

groovy.ambuj writes "The Inquirer reports that Microsoft has developed Oklahoma's 'Computer Spyware protection Act'. The law will supposedly protect people from unwarranted hackers or virus attacks and can fine individuals up to $1M who are found guilty of breaking into a computer without the owners knowledge. At the same time, it also allows some of the better known capable companies to 'look' into your computer for possible virus/spyware and fix the problem without informing you. And, while these friends are doing their job, they can also take the moment to do other things. "

So Linux and OS X will be defined as spyware?

[fdrebin]

Wouldn't suprise me none...

/F

Just great.

[Rob T Firefly]

In other news, Charles Manson has produced a flawless plan for the public to avoid being murdered by crazed serial killers, relying heavily on letting him murder you before any "really bad people" can.

obligatory...

[revery]

Clippy: It looks like you are writing a state law, do you mind if I insert Microsoft-friendly boilerplate?

[User clicks no.]

Clippy: Congratulations, your document has been modified and submitted for sponsorship and ultimately passage by Microsoft-owned employees... err shills... err statesmen... Thank you for using Microsoft Word. (Also, we'll keep that private folder between you and me, ok? It'd be a shame for the attorney general to see that...) Have a nice day! You poor little sheep... HA HA HA HA HA!

Will Tuttle have any input?

[Snap E Tom]

Heh. Because if they do, I'll bet Apache and CentOS gets listed as spyware.

R-Edmond??

[jomegat]

Clearly, Jolley is not the only legislator who could be described as "R-Edmond".

could be worse

[rbochan]

A local village idiot [slashdot.org] could have written it.

Re:Why

[Anonymous Coward]

Because Kansas was still busy with it's sex ed legislation?

Re:This is the problem damnit

[Like2Byte]

What kind of dumbass do you need to be to see this is a positive thing?

Hrm, I'll bite. http://www.tuttle-ok.gov/index.asp?Type=B_BASIC&SE C=%7BCC5DEFB6-1B2A-4783-A5F8-A92275C95081%7D [tuttle-ok.gov]

Do not be afraid: State of Oklahoma != Oklahoma

[NRAdude]

Remember...the State of Oklahoma was created by Congress; whereas it can't legislate to Oklahoma because it is a state already created by the people; thereby, Congress can't create a state within a state unless by Admiralty jurisidiction (libel) to say our (the people's) Oklahoma is a Territory under the US Constititution. This brings in many presumptions whereas this Oklahoma (not-confederated several states of the people) are not a part of that OKLAHOMA (a federal State upon the dejure state known as Oklahoma libeled/Admiralty to be respected as a Territory for Congress to charter and "graze" its a corporation upon). The United States (plural) is not the United States (singular; USCODE Title 27 Section 3002, 15 ; '"United States" means a federal corporation') in the Admiralty mode can only see Territory when it has a Treaty to extend its venue.

Produce an affidvate that such and such person (trust, association, partnership, etc) of a man is a state/Oklahoma Citizen and not existing as a State/OKLAHOMA citizen (sometimes known as a citizen of the United States), then you can reserve the rights of that person all without leaving the de jure county of the people/king's favorite bench/bank. Welcome back to America; maybe with some effort, the misnomer and the psychopathic tendancy of a man to confess he is paper/person can all be burnt at the Door of the courthouse.

with love,
  Gregory-Thomas:Mundt

Re:Do not be afraid: State of Oklahoma != Oklahoma

[Anonymous Coward]

Holy crap, are you off your meds, dude?

OK = Cyberterrorist target

[mojoNYC]

Oklahoma is the target of international cyberterrorist efforts--look at the heroic efforts of the brave IT Manager of Tuttle, Oklahoma, after Linux extremists took over his city website!

http://www.tuttletimes.com/siteSearch/apstorysecti on/local_story_088201244.html [tuttletimes.com]

Clearly, no measures are too extreme to protect the vulnerable citizens of Oklahoma from what evils lie within.

Re:So Linux and OS X will be defined as spyware?

[TheRaven64]

Well, this is Oklahoma, and it seems that CentOS is already a virus or hacker tool of some kind there...

Slightly OT

[kiracatgirl]

A bunch of people mentioned how you can't copy/paste things off of the site, but there's a simple loophole which doesn't involve scrolling through source code.

Just click and drag with the arrow-cursor, not the text cursor. You can start from any between-paragraphs whitespace, and it works fine. Makes the whole script thing even MORE pointless, though...

A lot like the law being proposed, come to think of it.