[OS:N:] Use a firewall, go to jail...

[Jeremy Hogan <jhogan redhat com>]

"The states of Massachusetts and Texas are preparing to consider bills
that apparently are intended to extend the national Digital Millennium
Copyright Act. (TX bill; MA bill) The bills are obviously related to
each other somehow, since they are textually similar.

Here is one example of the far-reaching harmful effects of these bills.
Both bills would flatly ban the possession, sale, or use of technologies
that "conceal from a communication service provider ... the existence or
place of origin or destination of any communication". 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. (The encryption conceals the destinations
of outgoing messages, and the sources of incoming messages.)

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..."

(more)

http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/archives/000336.html