Use a Firewall, Go to Jail?

[Jennifer Dozar]

No. this is not an april fool's joke. I have seen this post and article
recently before the first on other lists. Unless this is a new post.
*shrug*

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On Wed, 2 Apr 2003, zscoundrel wrote:

> 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?
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> 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!
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> 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.
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> > Discuss,
> > Jim
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> > Use a Firewall, Go to Jail?
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> > "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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> A marble traveling at 22,000 miles per hour would strike with as
> much force as a 400-pound safe traveling at just 60 miles per hour.
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