And to be clear, the paragraphs of analysis came from an article someone else wrote, they are not mine.
On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 8:40 PM, Jerry Johnson <jmi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 5:36 PM, Cameron Childress <camer...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> >> On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 4:28 PM, Jerry Johnson <jmi...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > There is a bill proposed in both the house and the senate that would >> require >> > ISPs (and anyone that runs a wifi node) to keep records of all ips and >> who >> > was using them for 6 months. But it is not law yet. >> >> Okay - so if I run a WiFi node and leave it open I have to log all the >> used IPs assigned to users via DHCP? What the hell good does that do? >> >> Yes officer! The offender was at 192.168.1.35! Traceroute that you >> CSI b*tches! >> > > > log IPs and _who was using them_. > > From an old rant by me on the subject, the details of the bills: > > http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d111:HR01076: > > ... > Data retention bills - requires ISP and WiFis to retain user data for 2 yrs > > > Two bills have been introduced so far--S.436 in the Senate and H.R.1076 in > the House. Each of the companion bills is titled "Internet Stopping Adults > Facilitating the Exploitation of Today's Youth Act," or Internet Safety Act. > > Each contains the same language: "A provider of an electronic communication > service or remote computing service shall retain for a period of at least > two years all records or other information pertaining to the identity of a > user of a temporarily assigned network address the service assigns to that > user." > > Translated, the Internet Safety Act applies not just to AT&T, Comcast, > Verizon, and so on--*but also to the tens of millions of homes with Wi-Fi > access points or wired routers that use the standard method of dynamically > assigning temporary addresses.* (That method is called Dynamic Host > Configuration Protocol, or DHCP.) > > "Everyone has to keep such information," says Albert Gidari, a partner at > the Perkins Coie law firm in Seattle who specializes in this area of > electronic privacy law. > > The legal definition of electronic communication service is "any service > which provides to users thereof the ability to send or receive wire or > electronic communications." The U.S. Justice Department's position is that > any service "that provides others with means of communicating > electronically" qualifies. > > *That sweeps in not just public Wi-Fi access points, but > password-protected ones too, and applies to individuals, small businesses, > large corporations, libraries, schools, universities, and even government > agencies. Voice over IP services may be covered too.* > > Under the Internet Safety Act, all of those would have to keep logs for at > least two years. It "covers every employer that uses DHCP for its network," > Gidari said. "It covers Aircell on airplanes-- those little pico cells will > have to store a lot of data for those in-the-air Internet users." > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:294685 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
