Blog entry first published in http://guifi.net/en/node/20052

It seems that the same security arguments that lead to unjustified and threatening law proposals to civil rights since 9/11 is now used to approve more laws that, in the name of “our security” (not homeland security necessarily), will widen the already open door to our privacy.

As one can read;

“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. (That method is called Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol, or DHCP.” meaning that; ”A provider of an electronic communication service or remote computing service shall retain for a period of at least two years all records or other information pertaining to the identity of a user of a temporarily assigned network address the service assigns to that user.”

Well, it is far from Catalonia but trends are trends and, while we did avoid (thanks to public demonstrations) the state of emergency and law enforcement one could expect after the 11-march attacks in Madrid, it is not clear if cities and ISP’s will mirror themselves in what is going on in the States. As usual, we would prefer to mirror ourselves with seattlewireless or NYwireless, but still, it is worth giving it a thought.

You can see the full news about this law proposal in http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10168114-38.html.

RAX! (recerca, amor i xarxa)

Yann Bona.