Resumen
The article focuses on issues concerning computer security. Most of the specific laws and practices described in this article are already proposed by U.S. President Bill Clinton's administration. The SPA, which stands for Software Publisher's Association, is not today an official police force but it acts like one. SPA invites people to inform on their coworkers and friends, like the Clinton administration, it advocates a policy of collective responsibility whereby computer owners must actively enforce copyright or be punished. The SPA is currently threatening small Internet service providers (ISP), demanding they permit the SPA to monitor all users. Most ISP surrender when threatened, because they cannot afford to fight back in court. There is one exception, the idea that the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation and Microsoft Corp. will keep the root passwords for personal computers. This is an extrapolation from the Clipper chip and similar Clinton administration key-escrow proposals, together with a long-term trend.