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VPNs are used by our own government and many US businesses. Even something simple like SSH is enough to get around an IP block. There is no way this language
by TomatoTomato 15y ago
VPNs are used by our own government and many US businesses. Even something simple like SSH is enough to get around an IP block. There is no way this language will hold up.
- skymt 15y agoSSH and VPN software aren't "designed or marketed...for the circumvention or bypassing" of SOPA. Neither, come to think of it, is Tor.
- Goronmon 15y agoWell, it would have been weird (and impressive) for people to market technology against a law that had yet to be written.
- TomatoTomato 15y agoI guess my blog will be shut down as well for having an article about using the hosts file to aid domain routing. Heck, what if the Justice Dept. wants to file an injunction against Microsoft and Apple to hijack my hosts file. If they don't comply they could be construed as "in concert" with copyright infringers.
- wnight 15y agoOr, it will hold up and the government will have yet another inconsistently unenforced law to be used when it finds an innocent person who has done something politically inconvenient. Using encryption is already proof, in many people's eyes, that you're breaking the law because otherwise you wouldn't have anything to hide. Having this enshrined in law will make it worse.