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To: Myrddin

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


50 posted on 07/31/2011 6:10:12 AM PDT by DBrow
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To: DBrow

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.


54 posted on 07/31/2011 11:34:47 AM PDT by Myrddin
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