Use a Firewall, Go to Jail?

[zscoundrel]

That's funny. Check the date of yesterday and think about it.  WHY would 
someone actually LOBBY to get a law like this passed?  Where is the 
profit motive?

If it were the federal government, the laws would be pre-emptive at the 
FEderal level and the states would not be involved.  Got to be an April 
Fools joke!

Jim Herrmann wrote:
> 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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