Re: Why We Must Fight UCITA
----- 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
|
Not Categorized, Please Help
|
|
