1. Re: Why We Must Fight UCITA
- Posted by Kat <gertie at ZEBRA.NET> Feb 03, 2000
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----- Original Message ----- From: The Johnson Family <thedjs at INAME.COM> To: <EUPHORIA at LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU> Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2000 12:37 PM Subject: Re: Why We Must Fight UCITA > I havent replied to any particular message, because everyone has made a lot > of good points. > The trick is, even for us here in New Zealand, is to stop it happening in > the first place - just because they're not allowed to disable our > software/spy on our computers, doesn't mean they won't. > As for encryption, I can see peoples point that if you use something like > pgp, and they can already see into your computer, they can grab your private > key, and listen to key presses the next time you enter your password. What > we really need are TIGHT firewalls, with inbuilt encryption - any traffic > sent through the firewall is automatically encrypted (going out) or > decrypted (coming in), and these firewalls would need to do more than just > block specific ports - theres nothing stopping your copy of Windows 2002 > using port 80 instead. Of course implementing any of this would be made > awfully difficult with the US's anti encryption laws... I think what you are describing is called a VPN (virtual private network) and can be inter- or intra-net capable. The few "personal" firewalls i looked at, and the one i use, either comes with a VPN or a VPN can be added to them. Kat