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Michigan First With A Law That Could Outlaw VPNs
zaren writes "Holy frell, Taco, we're gonna be criminals! I was checking out Freedom to Tinker after reading the posting about that multi-state anti-VPN-style legislation, and I saw a new posting that says that Michigan has ALREADY passed such legislation, and it goes into effect on MONDAY, MARCH 31, 2003 . Guess I better tighten down the base station and batten down the hatches..."
Are there still people that think that GW2 is about "freedom"? The US is rapidly running out of oil and the best reserves left are under Iraq. It does not matter who gets the money, it is the oil that matters and this war is about getting that oil flowing. No one in their right mind would want an American impossed freedom as that is an oxymoron. Anyone with a little free thought can see the stupidity in the idea of forcing freedom on someone. The military have already got oil wells working again but the people are still without water.
This story may be an April Fools joke but the war is an obscenity against freedom.
I love stacking my barbecues in the shed at the end of summer - you can't beat a bit of grill on grill action.
they are referring to things like P2P/freenet, where the network's inherent replication of the 'service' (ie. your MP3s, DivXs and goat pr0n) means each node only knows of it's immediate peers, not the true source and destination.
Basically, The Man{Tm} considers P2P a greater/more likely threat (and more able to get it banned without Free Speech advocates going apeshit) to his control of us plebs than strong encryption. Encryption hides the content but not the source/destination, P2P hides the source/destination but not the content. One without the other makes life much more difficult for law enforcement. People have demonstrated they will not use encryption in day-to-day life (thereby making encrypted traffic special), but use P2P daily without a second thought.
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