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Re: Use a Firewall, Go to Jail?



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On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 11:33:54PM -0500, Peter Christensen wrote:
> 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...

No, they aren't.  Only the content of the message is.  How do you
think servers would be able to properly deliver encrypted messages if
the headers were also encrypted?

> 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.

I think that's a far more liberal interpretation of the law than will
be applied, since as far as the ISP is concerned, only one box is
connected.  I don't think NAT exactly advertises it's existence...

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