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House Passes Another Spyware Bill

SkippyTPE writes "The AP reports that the US House of Representatives has unanimously passed a law criminalizing Spyware. This is the second such bill in two days (the first imposing civil penalties, whereas this bill imposes criminal penalties). Information on the bills (HR2929 and HR4661) can be found here and here respectively."

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  1. Re:Maybe another Law isn't necessary by GlassUser · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    If I'm behind a router which has one address and mac then it wont be passing my internel network IP addresses up to a site I'm visiting. That seems to me to be a rather bad security choice there.

    I think you need to learn how routing works.