[67283] in Cypherpunks
Re: How to fight GAK by obeying the law
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike McNally)
Fri Oct 4 09:20:37 1996
Date: Fri, 04 Oct 1996 08:02:04 -0500
From: Mike McNally <m5@tivoli.com>
Reply-To: m5@tivoli.com
To: Ernest Hua <hua@chromatic.com>
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
Ernest Hua wrote:
> First thing we definitely need is a way to determine with fairly good
> accuracy, whether a host is in the U.S.
I really don't see how that's possible, given the possibility of me
taking my laptop to Ecuador, dialing into a stateside ISP, and being
issued an IP address in the ISP's domain. In other words, anything
that bases a decision on host location by inference on the domain
will inherently be rooted in the notion that hosts in that domain are
stuck to the ground "nearby".
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