Niels Provos honeypot illegal !

The State DMCA laws, if interpreted the way they are worded, are also in conflict with the National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace from the illustrious President Bush in February 2003.

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To meet these needs, the Director of OSTP will coordinate the development, and update on an annual basis, a federal government research and development agenda that includes near-term (1-3 years), mid-term (3-5 years), and later (5 years out and longer) IT security research for Fiscal Year 2004 and beyond. Existing priorities include, among others, intrusion detection, Internet infrastructure security (including protocols such as BGP and DNS), application security, DoS, communications security (including SCADA system encryption and authentication), high-assurance systems, and secure system composition. (A/R 2-11) processes and procedures that diminish the possibilities of erroneous code, malicious code, or trap doors that could be introduced during development.

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Home users and small businesses can help the Nation secure cyberspace by securing their own connections to it. Installing firewall software and updating it regularly, maintaining current antivirus software, and regularly updating operating systems and major applications with security enhancements are actions that individuals security enhancements are actions that individuals and enterprise operators can take to help secure cyberspace. <see file attachment>

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So, if a home user follows the lead of the federal government to secure cyberspace, they would be in violation of Michigan state law.

Gore: I'm here too....... Yes MI Sux....... Yesterday 82 degrees f here, tonight freezing rain, a week ago 5" of snow..... It's bloody April for gods sake....... :(

This law is a wonderful example of why government should stay out of technology. They have no clue and half the time the people advising the lawmakers are the government IT people. I can assure you where talent and knowledge are concerned those govt. IT staff were often at the back of the queue when it was handed out.......<sigh>

Let me first state that I am vary opposed to this law, and living in Illinois I am affected also (we passed a super dcma before Michigan) but I have also noticed that there has been no prosecution under these laws (its been around in IL for about a year I believe), because they are paper tigers.

The way to defeat them is to not run away and cry when you think your software is in violation. This guy in Mi is acting like a drama queen…oh I’m going to hide in a corner because the mean government might come and get me (all the while making sure every one knows that I’m hiding). Quit acting like children or independent security researchers will always be treated like children (this is also true for the Linux community)

The solution is to do what we always do in this country, let our court system fix the law. It amazes me how little most techies understand the working of our legal system, the politicians pass laws that are basically suggestions then the courts make the law.

Run your firewall, make your honey pots. they are not illegal and the only way to get rid of super-dcma legislation is if someone is charged under it so it can go to court. The fact that the stat governments where these laws have been passed still use firewalls and NAT should give you an idea of the likelihood anyone ever being prosecuted (the state has to fallow their own law).

in reference to this law....

we need to try and figure out a way of making what the lawmakers are attempting work. If they are looking for some sort of defined set of rules, regulations, and identities, it's going to happen. If they get some people to come up with and suggest better ideas, they are going to take them. the law is not necessarily against us, and we aren't fighting "the man." this is probably just the best idea a bunch of rich old white guys could come up with.