Hi, Well, although I don't live in the US, their laws have surprised me from time to time.
However, I read this as: 1) Don't spoof your IP address. 2) Don't sniff packets not belonging to you. With encrypted e-mail channels, communications are still between your ISP (if they store your e-mail) and yourself, so no problem there. And hey, if they store your e-mail, they know the 'from' and 'to' fields anyway. With NAT, communications cannot be pin-pointed to a single computer, but still to an ISP's subscriber, so no problem there. I don't know what they want to achieve with a bill like this, but firewalls will not be banned. That's my opinion, anyway, ;-) David On Wed, 2 Apr 2003, Peter Christensen wrote: > Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2003 23:33:54 -0500 > From: Peter Christensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: debian user <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Use a Firewall, Go to Jail? > Resent-Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2003 22:50:35 -0600 (CST) > Resent-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > The reason I posted this here is because if you follow the link at the > bottom, it says that most versions of Linux and recent versions of Windows > would be in violation of laws that are being considered in several states. > This sounds so crazy that it's hard to believe. Maybe the author is > misinterpreting the law... > > Peter Christensen > > "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 > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
