Date: Sat, 25 Sep 1999 09:20:13 -0700 (PDT) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> To: billf@jade.chc-chimes.com (Bill Fumerola) Cc: cpiazza@FreeBSD.org (Chris Piazza), cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/net/nstreams - Imported sources Message-ID: <199909251620.JAA07693@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9909242250120.96606-100000@jade.chc-chimes.com> from Bill Fumerola at "Sep 24, 1999 10:50:33 pm"
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> 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 <sef@freeBSD.org> 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
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