Use a Firewall, Go to Jail?

[Brian Densmore]

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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