[ale] firewalls, encryption & NAT to be illegal?

[Joe]

hbbs at attbi.com writes:

> In addition to the general unease that most all of us here seem to share about
> this sort of legislation, I am starting to really have a problem with this
> spreading notion of "illegal information" such as the NAT-HOWTO if NAT were made
> illegal.  
> 
> I'm thinking about the DMCA-outlawed things like that guy's DVD descrambler -
> how he printed it on a t-shirt (thereby making illegal clothing) and wrote a
> haiku describing the procedure (illegal poetry).
> 
> Is the whole point to inure society to the notion of illegal information - to
> expand what is considered non-protected speech?

I wouldn't think such restrictions would be Constitutional. Has the DMCA
yet been challenged in court?

-- Joe Knapka
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