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Use a firewall, go to jail, and send Bill Gates too
John Lettice, The Register 2003-03-28

The (DMCA) Digital Millennium Copyright Act clearly isn't enough for some people. Massachusetts and Texas are - in curious formation - considering bills that will extend it to make firewalls (among other things) illegal.

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Needs clarification.. 2003-03-29
Anonymous
Well, technically speaking, NAT'ing masks the actually computer the information came from. However, the argument could be made that you still know *where* it came from because you at least have the ligitamate address of the firewall. So they wouldn't be able to tell that it came from the computer ...

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