Use a Firewall, Go to Jail?
The reason I posted this here is because if you follow the link at the
bottom, it says that most versions of Linux and recent versions of Windows
would be in violation of laws that are being considered in several states.
This sounds so crazy that it's hard to believe. Maybe the author is
misinterpreting the law...
Peter Christensen
"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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