John Gilmore wrote: > This bill makes it a crime to use any false or misleading information > in a domain name or email account application, and then send an email. > That would make a large fraction of hotmail users instant criminals.
Why? Can't you register a domain using a proxy? I think this claim is bogus. > It also makes it a crime to remove or alter information in message > headers in ways that would make it harder for a police officer > to determine who had sent the email. Anonymizers will be illegal > as soon as this bill becomes law. This is a more severe problem. However, if anonymizers were actually used to disseminate commercial email messages to a relevant degree, I think the providers of such service such be held responsible. Sending spoofed IP packets is a similar problem at a lower protocol level, causing lots of trouble, and I think the network operator who permits spoofed addresses to originate from his network is partly responsible if something goes wrong. However, there are obvious workarounds, such as an opt-in approach for the receipt of anonymized email. But I wonder how this anti-spam bill relates to manual message forwarding (which typically destroys most message headers). --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]