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]
