Use a Firewall, Go to Jail?
Brian Densmore
DensmoreB at ctbsonline.com
Wed Apr 2 14:20:45 CST 2003
Dude, all our bosses are getting a CELL!
ROFLMAO
[pauses, thinks remembers laughing when they
recommended extending the copyright ...
I seriously doubt this would have a prayer of passing in any state
except Oregon.
First I have heard of this. Probably another hoax thing that some really
stupid
politician will get wind of and try to make into a law. Fortunately
though, there
is not one company in the US dumb enough to support so dumb a law.
Without corporate
support it won't fly if indeed it is anything other than an April fools'
day joke.
peace,
Brian
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Herrmann [mailto:kclug at ItDepends.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2003 11:56 PM
> To: KCLUG
> Subject: Use a Firewall, Go to Jail?
>
>
> Have any of you heard about this issue, and know if it is based in
> reality or paranoia? It's sound totally assinine and
> unenforcable, but
> I thought I would ask.
>
> Discuss,
> Jim
>
>
> Use a Firewall, Go to Jail?
>
> "The states of MA,TX, SC, FL, GA, AK, CO, & TN are preparing
> to consider
> bills that apparently are intended to extend the national Digital
> Millennium Copyright Act...bills would flatly ban the
> possession, sale,
> or use of technologies that 'conceal from a communication service
> provider...' Your ISP is a communication service provider, so
> anything
> that concealed the origin or destination of any communication
> from your
> ISP would be illegal - with no exceptions. If you send or
> receive your
> email via an encrypted connection, you're in violation,
> because the 'To'
> and 'From' lines of the emails are concealed from your ISP by
> encryption...Worse yet, Network Address Translation (NAT), a
> technology
> widely used for enterprise security, operates by translating
> the 'from'
> and 'to' fields of Internet packets, thereby concealing the source or
> destination of each packet, and hence violating these bills. Most
> security 'firewalls' use NAT, so if you use a firewall, you're in
> violation."
> http://freedom-to-tinker.com/archives/000336.html
>
>
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