Post #92,520
3/28/03 3:38:46 PM
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Firewalls to become illegal in TX and MA?
[link|http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/30003.html|Use a firewall, go to jail]. The (DMCA) Digital Millennium Copyright Act clearly isn't enough for some people. Massachusetts and Texas are - in curious formation - considering bills that will extend it to make firewalls (among other things) illegal. o o o "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." Alex
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction. -- Blaise Pascal (1623-1662)
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Post #92,524
3/28/03 3:48:56 PM
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That would ALSO apply to:
A Router
A Point-to-Point link
A Protocol Gateway (Ether_II to Token Ring)
Any Destination for mail being forwarded to another.
the list would go on... but you get the drift.
Damn, Spice... Glen and a few others feel sorry for you.
Shoot, *Z* would fall under that... using mod_rewrite....
Hmmm, whole nuther direction to go... connection pooling devices, load balancing...
Storing things in a Database... think about it... it would also fall under it. Not being in original form.
Ouch, this one is gonna hurt.
b4k4^2
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Post #92,547
3/28/03 4:26:03 PM
3/28/03 4:28:04 PM
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critique?
I've got a couple emails poised to send this to my state Representative and Senator: Subject: Concerned over SB 1116
After reading this article:
[link|http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/30003.html|http://www.theregist...tent/6/30003.html]
about S.B. No. 1116, I have to question if Senator Williams understands technology enough to be qualified to put forth a bill with such (hopefully) unintended consequences.
From the article:
"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.
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"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.
"If you have a home DSL router, or if you use the 'Internet Connection Sharing' feature of your favorite operating system product, you're in violation because these connection sharing technologies use NAT. Most operating system products (including every version of Windows introduced in the last five years, and virtually all versions of Linux) would also apparently be banned, because they support connection sharing via NAT." For others in Texas - you can use [link|http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/fyi/address.htm|this page] to find contact info for your incumbents. Darrell Spice, Jr. [link|http://www.spiceware.org/cgi-bin/spa.pl?album=./Artistic%20Overpass|Artistic Overpass]\n[link|http://www.spiceware.org/|SpiceWare] - We don't do Windows, it's too much of a chore
Edited by SpiceWare
March 28, 2003, 04:28:04 PM EST
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Post #92,569
3/28/03 4:48:53 PM
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Also indicate that using the privacy feature of blocking
callerid when making a call is also illegal as well as phoneforwarding and lnp.
thanx,
bill
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Post #92,573
3/28/03 4:52:17 PM
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good call
(yes the pun was intended)
Darrell Spice, Jr. [link|http://www.spiceware.org/cgi-bin/spa.pl?album=./Artistic%20Overpass|Artistic Overpass]\n[link|http://www.spiceware.org/|SpiceWare] - We don't do Windows, it's too much of a chore
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Post #92,567
3/28/03 4:46:49 PM
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wonder if anyone has pointed out
that all the lawmakers staff are going to jail.
thanx,
bill
will work for cash and other incentives [link|http://home.tampabay.rr.com/boxley/resume/Resume.html|skill set]
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Since corporations are the equivelent of human but they have no "concience" they are by definition sociopaths
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Post #92,800
3/29/03 11:12:47 AM
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They are exempt from their own rules - doesn't matter
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Post #92,801
3/29/03 11:12:49 AM
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They are exempt from their own rules - doesn't matter
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Post #92,870
3/29/03 4:00:12 PM
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This is a Good Thing.
I've long held that computers ought to be illegal. This is a good first step.
bcnu,
Mikem
Osama bin Laden's brother could fly in US airspace 9/15/01, but I had to wait for FBI and CIA background checks, 'nuff said?
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Post #93,300
3/31/03 5:27:58 PM
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If computers are outlawed...
...only outlaws will have computers. :-)
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Post #93,301
3/31/03 5:29:31 PM
3/31/03 5:31:11 PM
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Re: If computers are outlawed...
[link|http://www.ubergeek.tv/switchlinux/|http://www.ubergeek.tv/switchlinux/]
Edit - oops, forgot to CLICK THE CHECKBOX when I selected the "Oh, Pun!" forum.
Darrell Spice, Jr. [link|http://www.spiceware.org/cgi-bin/spa.pl?album=./Artistic%20Overpass|Artistic Overpass]\n[link|http://www.spiceware.org/|SpiceWare] - We don't do Windows, it's too much of a chore
Edited by SpiceWare
March 31, 2003, 05:31:11 PM EST
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