Posted on 07/30/2011 6:43:38 PM PDT by BfloGuy
So our small party tea folk are falling right in line, and they just got there.
We can’t seem to get any traction
And to think, GOD only needed 10 laws, plus one.
bump for later read
But, but . . . it’s for the CHILDREN!!!
And the one, which encompasses them all.
Not with the detail you have. From your excerpts, it seems the squealing is coming from people patronizing kiddie porn. That little detail was left out of the text of the article.
I am so glad that Republicans control the House. Can’t wait until they have Senate and Presidency.
I agree. The bill as posted is bad, but it does not call for keylogging or recording mouse clicks.
Although the bill is titled “antichildporn” or something, the retained IP data will be used to gather evidence for other crimes, make no mistake, if they suspect someone of sedition or Warmism (not a crime yet I know), this data will be used.
The “problem” now is that the file linking your identity to the temporary IP is updated whenever the IP addy changes, so it’s very hard to link a blog post to you if it’s over a certain age. Go back a year and that comment you left on the Washington Post article is anonymous, or (keeping to the stated intent of the bill) the movie of little kids you dl’d from usenet can’t be traced to you. So the bill asks ISP’s to retain that data for 18 months.
btw I posted the whole bill in segments, I think there is an updated version not posted to the Thomas site yet, thomas.loc.gov
VPN server overseas?
Leni
It’s a dem bill right? So one dem is put out as a ‘objector’ to provide cover for the rest of the liberal totalitarians? Yeah, I’m impressed.
A move to IPv6 would allow a permanent assignment of the IP address to each device in use. That would solve the transient DHCP reassignment of addresses.
*sigh*... Guess it is past time to fire up Tor.
Here are the votes (PDF). Of the 10 votes against, only three were Republican, not surprisingly Issa and Sensenbrenner among them. That's half of the Democrats voting against, and almost all of the Republicans voting for. Sad.
Yep. Hong Kong, Sweden, Brazil - there are some good places to have an overseas VPN connection, where it will be very difficult for the Federal Government to get its hands on your connection information, and they do not have the legal requirements to record everything your VPN has done.
When in the US, I use one in Hong Kong. HK has a record of giving the Federal Government the finger - so it’ll be hard for the Feds to even confirm the existence of my VPN connections.
But it also doesn’t record any of my actions - not required, actually illegal to do so in HK (ISPs cannot record your activities). So even if they admitted that I had an account - there are no records kept of what I did. The Federal Government will get a nice big empty box of air...
Ok and?
If you’re already in business with the ISP, they will have that information on file a lot longer than 1 year.
AS for Traffic - the only way to truly avoid anything is to work with HTTPS or use a virtual machine that provides a proxy for you to use. Otherwise, if it’s on the internet, it’s there for ANYONE to see.
In fact, sometimes it’s fun to go to a Barnes and Noble or even a McDonald’s on campus with a Wifi analyzer just to see what people are putting out there completely in the clear.
“Ok and?”
Now, they don’t HAVE to keep temp IP addys associated with your name. Many do.
There also is no current requirement to divulge past IP addys (tied to customers) to any LE agency with a piece of paper.
False headlines aside, it’s just a little move closer to ending net anonymity, this time it’s being done to keep kids safe from people who collect “illegal” pictures. For the Children.
The bill as far as I can see does not get involved with traffic, just addresses.
Which WiFi sniffer do you prefer?
It’s called Ufasoft Snif....you can download a trial version at cnet.
It’s what I’ve used at work in the past so I’m used to it.
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