{"id":2570,"date":"2003-03-27T20:17:39","date_gmt":"2003-03-27T20:17:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/?p=2570"},"modified":"2003-03-27T20:17:39","modified_gmt":"2003-03-27T20:17:39","slug":"more_bad_laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/?p=2570","title":{"rendered":"More Bad Laws"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you live in MA (or TX, SC, FL, GA, AL, TN, or CO) and use a Firewall you should beware.  It <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freedom-to-tinker.com\/archives\/000336.html\">may become illegal<\/a> if bills in those states pass.  I just downloaded the MA one and am going to read through it tomorrow, but the blog entry linked to above says:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Here is one example of the far-reaching harmful effects of these bills. Both bills would flatly ban the possession, sale, or use of technologies that &#8220;conceal from a communication service provider &#8230; the existence or place of origin or destination of any communication&#8221;. Your ISP is a communcation service provider, so anything that concealed the origin or destination of any communication from your ISP would be illegal &#8212; with no exceptions. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.freedom-to-tinker.com\/\">Freedom to Tinker<\/a>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Just to explain that a bit more.  That would make most corporate firewalls illegal, along with those little mini firewalls they make for home.  And don&#8217;t forget just about any recent OS (since they do connection sharing).  (via <a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/\">BoingBoing<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you live in MA (or TX, SC, FL, GA, AL, TN, or CO) and use a Firewall you should beware. It may become illegal if bills in those states pass. I just downloaded the MA one and am going to read through it tomorrow, but the blog entry linked to above says: Here is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2570\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}