From owner-cvs-all Sat Sep 25 9:20:34 1999 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from gndrsh.dnsmgr.net (GndRsh.dnsmgr.net [198.145.92.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C623B150BE; Sat, 25 Sep 1999 09:20:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net) Received: (from freebsd@localhost) by gndrsh.dnsmgr.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id JAA07693; Sat, 25 Sep 1999 09:20:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" Message-Id: <199909251620.JAA07693@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/net/nstreams - Imported sources In-Reply-To: from Bill Fumerola at "Sep 24, 1999 10:50:33 pm" To: billf@jade.chc-chimes.com (Bill Fumerola) Date: Sat, 25 Sep 1999 09:20:13 -0700 (PDT) Cc: cpiazza@FreeBSD.org (Chris Piazza), cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > On Fri, 24 Sep 1999, Chris Piazza wrote: > > > nstreams analyzes the streams that occur on a network. It displays which > > streams are generated by users and can optionally generation > > ipfw rules that will match these streams, thus only allowing > > what is required for the users, and nothing more. > > I can't wait to check this out this weekend, what an awesome utility. I wish Sean had never pointed me at 18 USC 2510 etc, all. BPF, tcpdump, nstreams, and a ton of other stuff potentially make it illegal to ``used, sent, carried, manufactured, assembled, possessed, sold or advertised'' [The tense of the verbs need to be corrected] FreeBSD that containts such ``electronic, mechanical, or other device.'' References: 18 USC 2510 (5), 18 USC 2513. Though 18 USC 2510 (5) (a) may provide some releif in its use of the wording ``in the ordinary course of its business.'' I don't think I could really claim that BPF meets this criteria :-(. Under the strictest letter of the law, BPF, etc all, is classified as a ``wire tapping device'', and even possession of such ``devices'' can result in some pretty health jail and legal fines. Up to 5 years and/or $10,000 :-( We have just removed BPF from all standard deployment kernel config files, Sigh :-(. -- Rod Grimes - KD7CAX - (RWG25) rgrimes@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message