[NTLUG:Discuss] YIKES! Texas bill could render firewalls/routers illegal...

[Greg Edwards]

Rob Apodaca wrote:
> "...conceal from a communication service provider, or from any lawful
> authority..."
> 
> Could this mean 'without consent of the ISP'? Many ISP's willingly allow
> nat routing and even provide routers along with the connection.
> 
> Is there any known way to detect the use of nat?
> 
> I wonder what the motivation for this bill was. For some reason I have a
> sinking feeling it was "Homeland defense".
> 
> Ok, now that you've pointed this bill out, what can we do?
> 
> -Rob

I'll give them a little slack as I'd guess they just don't understand 
the technology.  I'm sure they are after the mail address spoofers.  On 
the other hand I wouldn't but this sort of thing past our current crop 
of privacy rights squashers in DC.

I found it interesting to see a .nsa.gov domain name pass by during a 
tcpdump the other day.  It was a DNS request and it was during a cache 
refresh so maybe there was nothing to it.  But then again they are 
collecting (and storing) email now!!

Off my soapbox now.

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Greg Edwards
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