"It's
a good thing we don't get all the government we pay for." -- Will Rogers
Yes, it is so. Both senate bill S.436 and House bill H.R.1076 will
make it a federal crime for anyone, including
you, to not retain a log, for two years, of everyone who
has connected to your wireless router within the past two years if they
dynamically acquired an IP address so they can get access to the
Internet. That log is kept within your wireless router and
is erased when turned off and
so .... You have to keep it turned on for at least 2 years
after the last time you use it.
"Translated,
the Internet Safety Act applies not just to AT&T,
Comcast, Verizon, and so on--but also to the tens of millions of homes
with Wi-Fi access points or wired routers that use the
standard method
of dynamically assigning temporary addresses. "
"Everyone has to keep such information," says Albert Gidari,
a partner at the Perkins Coie law firm in Seattle who specializes in
this area of electronic privacy law.
Had a power outage? Oooh. Bad luck, you!
Why
won't anyone think of the children?
The claim is that this law is needed to protect children from
pedophiles.
CNET News 19-Feb-09
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