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

[Rev. wRy]

Greg Edwards wrote:

> 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.

Yeah, this is why I'd rather face the heat here for posting it there 
than on the fortiutioiousiousioususiousious list.  I did find it 
encouraging that the voices of reason there are the same ones being the 
voices of reason here.  Thanks Greg & Steve.

In any event, remember that we are all responsible for our own actions, 
and should act appropriately.  The whole thing shouldn't be about a PHD 
with a deal involving a rural retreat insider who sees a business 
opportunity [Nothing wrong with that though] for himself.

Open formats would do much more good than a blanket "use open source and 
I'll train you!" law.

> 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!!

Wacky.  But not unexpected.

> Off my soapbox now.

Me too.

Ry