Use a Firewall, Go to Jail?

[Jim Herrmann]

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."
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