[112371] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: [SPAM-HEADER] - Legislation and its effects in our world - Email
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rod Beck)
Wed Feb 25 10:11:51 2009
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 15:09:38 -0000
From: "Rod Beck" <Rod.Beck@hiberniaatlantic.com>
To: "Jim Willis" <jim.h.willis@gmail.com>,
<nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
Another issue is civil rights. Do we want to create a surveillance =
society? It has already happened to a large extent in the UK and the US, =
but this is significant step forward ...
I'll leave it at that since I am writing on corporate email and I do not =
represent my company on this issue.=20
Regards,=20
Roderick.=20
=20
After having a brief conversation with a friend of mine over the weekend
about this new proposed legislation I was horrified to find that I could =
not
dig anything up on it in NANOG. Surely this sort of short minded =
legislation
should have been a bit more thought through in its effects on those that
would have to implement these changes. My major concern is not just for
myself but for a much broader picture.
"Republican politicians on Thursday called for a sweeping new federal =
law
that would require all Internet providers and operators of millions of =
Wi-Fi
access points, even hotels, local coffee shops, and home users, to keep
records about users for two years to aid police investigations."
http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/02/20/internet.records.bill/index.html
I understand and agree that minors should be protected and I think child
pornography is awful, however I think how the government is going about
catching these criminals with this new legislation will not really be =
any
more efficient than there current methods. Having a log of all IP's that
come across my or anyone in America's "home" Wi-Fi for two years is not
going to help "police investigations" but will cause me to have to go =
buy a
more expensive router.
So I'm just wondering, how would this legislation effect some of you on =
the
NANOG list?
-Jim
