TPP requires countries to destroy security-testing tools (and your laptop)

[wildbilln864]

Under TPP, signatories are required to give their judges the power to "order the destruction of devices and products found to be involved in" breaking digital locks, such as those detailed in this year's US Copyright Office Triennial DMCA Hearing docket, which were used to identify critical vulnerabilities in vehicles, surveillance devices, voting machines, medical implants, and many other devices in our world.

Since the docket opened, we've lived through the recall of 1.4 million jeeps whose steering and braking could be seized by Internet-based attackers and Dieselgate, which saw VW using DRM to hide its emissions-cheating.

TPP allows countries to create security exemptions to the seize-and-destroy rule, but it requires them to enact the rule itself.
more here...

[Agony]

1. why should I worry? I never break any laws.

WAIT WHUT! Handbrake! Oh shit…

"The implications go well beyond security of course. Many of us routinely use circumvention tools. For example, you may have installed Handbrake to rip DVDs, or VLC to let you capture streams or watch out-of-region discs. Under this rule, governments must enact legislation allowing court orders to destroy your laptop if you have these programs installed on it."

[AzDar]

2. Kill it with fire...

[Agony]

3. I am sure that congress will fully examine this under TPA and of course do the right thing...

and reject the whole pile of crap… don't worry, be happy!

"And as Motherboard's Jordan Pearson reported last week, there's some extraordinarily nasty language relating to our ability to look into and modify the software code that increasingly governs how pretty much everything operates in the digital age. Bottom line for this provision: People who tinker in any way that interferes with controls designed to prevent tinkering could have their devices destroyed."

http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2015/10/15/trans_pacific_partnership_could_thwart_computer_security_research_and_tinkering.html

[WinkyDink]

4. The entire point of the TPP is to destroy the sovereignty of nations.

[GliderGuider]

5. That's how I see it too. nt

[hobbit709]

6. DeCSS all over again.