The End of Net Anonymity In Brazil

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Monday November 6, 2006 @05:40AM 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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What about kids? by javilon · 2006-11-06 05:47 · Score: 2, Interesting

Will a 10 years old kid go to trial if he posts anonymously on a forum like slashdot?

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Re:Anonymity is illusion by maxwell+demon · 2006-11-06 07:33 · Score: 2, Interesting

Might not be necessary to contact the ISP if your social security number is embedded in each TCP/IP packet along with the MAC address.

What is the MAC adddress of my analog modem?

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