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The End of Net Anonymity In Brazil

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the good-while-it-lasted dept.

DieNadel writes, "The Brazilian senate is considering a bill that will make it a crime to join a chat, blog, or download from the Internet without fully identifying oneself first. Privacy groups and Internet providers are very concerned, and are trying to lobby against the bill, but it seems they won't have much success." From the article: "If approved, it will be a crime, punishable with up to 4 years of jail time, to disseminate virus or trojans, unauthorizedly access data banks or networks and send e-mail, join chat, write a blog or download content anonymously."

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  1. As always... by Otter · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Gee, it's too bad we didn't hand over the Internet to the UN like you guys all wanted...

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  2. It's all a matter of time.... by Ohlmy1 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    It's all a matter of time before anonymity on the internet becomes a thing of the past. Brazil stepping in is just one route that the governments will take. Once we all get moved to IPv6, everyone will be assigned a static IP address for their system. NAT will become a thing of the past. If taken to the extreme, the internet will become unusable unless you replace your NIC with one that has an IPv6 address burned into the chipset on the card. The government will make this a requirement by law, and many will complain. The simple reponse will be... If you don't like it, don't use it.