In additon, a jury is much more sympathetic to the little man. Corporations, for example, will fight to the death against a jury trial. I guess they (Corporations and Landlords) don't think the average Joe Blow trusts them for some reason or another =).
"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."
So what is the ALCU and the EFFs next move? Are they going to fight this unconstitutionality in court?
When a company that own's a majority of the Radio stations around the Country will do it instead. Also, this way, it's much harder to try to argue 1st amendment rights.
Dry lines used to only cost about $5 a month from the ILECs. Unfortunately about 5 years ago they realized that people could use these lines to undercut their ISDN pricing. Now, if your lucky, you can get one of these pairs for about $40 -$50 a month. I wasn't so lucky, BellSouth insisted that they no longer sold these lines. After asking them about a burglar alarm circuit, they finally admitted that they sold them but said I could not buy one because I wasn't a burglar alarm company or something like that. Any, with the current pricing, this is pointless if DSL is offered in your area. It also makes it impossible for any business to do this and offer competitive pricing.
So what if someone posts a movie to a newgroup and uses a bogus IP address that turns out to be mine? Am I legally responsible for any Usenet post that claims to be sent from my IP address? This is scary indeed.
Do you really think IPv6 is going to make that much of a difference? If someone's XP box is hacked and used as a DDoS drone, the packets the machine sends will be still be routed back to the Internet since they will still have valid source addresses. The router won't know that they are evil packets. It's true that their destination might be easier to trace, but what does it help when the source turns out to be some little old lady's droned windows machine?
On a different note, IP spoofing could be stopped all together if most network admins took the proper safe gaurds. If a packet is recived by a router that came in over an internal interface, it should not be forwarded out to the Internet by the router unless it's source IP matches one of the local networks internal addresses. The problem is that many network admin's don't block this traffic since there will be no real gain for their network. Neither the speed nor the integrity of their network will gain by droping these packets so many admins don't see any benefit.
Droping packets that don't have valid source addresses is very easy with Cisco IOS software and/or IP Tables, people just don't configure routers properly. IPv6 isn't going to help any if their are still administrator who don't know which traffic should be forwarded over each interface of the router.
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So is the United States a Terror Sponsoring Nation since it's laws create much of the market that "fuel terrorism"?
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In additon, a jury is much more sympathetic to the little man. Corporations, for example, will fight to the death against a jury trial. I guess they (Corporations and Landlords) don't think the average Joe Blow trusts them for some reason or another =).
Now if only they'd do some of their own lobbying to let congress know how much the RIAA cares about "artist's rights".
Kuro5hin is back up, hopefully for good. Anyway, I believe this is the article you were refering to.
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Come on! When it's cold outside the sky is clearer. Besides, the cow only wanted your wallet.
The Gorillaz new CD has Macrovision. This is the first CD that I bought that had any protection.
"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."
So what is the ALCU and the EFFs next move? Are they going to fight this unconstitutionality in court?
When a company that own's a majority of the Radio stations around the Country will do it instead. Also, this way, it's much harder to try to argue 1st amendment rights.
Dry lines used to only cost about $5 a month from the ILECs. Unfortunately about 5 years ago they realized that people could use these lines to undercut their ISDN pricing. Now, if your lucky, you can get one of these pairs for about $40 -$50 a month. I wasn't so lucky, BellSouth insisted that they no longer sold these lines. After asking them about a burglar alarm circuit, they finally admitted that they sold them but said I could not buy one because I wasn't a burglar alarm company or something like that. Any, with the current pricing, this is pointless if DSL is offered in your area. It also makes it impossible for any business to do this and offer competitive pricing.
So what if someone posts a movie to a newgroup and uses a bogus IP address that turns out to be mine? Am I legally responsible for any Usenet post that claims to be sent from my IP address? This is scary indeed.
Do you really think IPv6 is going to make that much of a difference? If someone's XP box is hacked and used as a DDoS drone, the packets the machine sends will be still be routed back to the Internet since they will still have valid source addresses. The router won't know that they are evil packets. It's true that their destination might be easier to trace, but what does it help when the source turns out to be some little old lady's droned windows machine?
On a different note, IP spoofing could be stopped all together if most network admins took the proper safe gaurds. If a packet is recived by a router that came in over an internal interface, it should not be forwarded out to the Internet by the router unless it's source IP matches one of the local networks internal addresses. The problem is that many network admin's don't block this traffic since there will be no real gain for their network. Neither the speed nor the integrity of their network will gain by droping these packets so many admins don't see any benefit.
Droping packets that don't have valid source addresses is very easy with Cisco IOS software and/or IP Tables, people just don't configure routers properly. IPv6 isn't going to help any if their are still administrator who don't know which traffic should be forwarded over each interface of the router.