Your right to privacy? Fail.

[Pirate Bill]

Originally Posted by Moonliner

On a totally random aside with no relation to earlier posts in this thread, I wonder how hard it would be to come up with a bit of "security software" for my router that would continuously assign random IP address to all the PC's NAT'ed behind the firewall.

Why would you need to randomize the IPs behind your firewall? Anybody outside your firewall would just see the IP address of the router, not the addresses of each individual computer on the network.

There's DHCP that most routers have built in that can be used to automatically assign an IP address. You can set the expiration period to anything you want, at which time it will assign a new IP. Unfortunately it will tend to assign the same IP address over and over again unless it gets snatched up by another computer between release and renew.

If it's anonymity you want then you need to use proxies to mask your router's IP address. TOR is a pretty simple solution.

[Moonliner]

Originally Posted by Pirate Bill

Why would you need to randomize the IPs behind your firewall? Anybody outside your firewall would just see the IP address of the router, not the addresses of each individual computer on the network.

There's DHCP that most routers have built in that can be used to automatically assign an IP address. You can set the expiration period to anything you want, at which time it will assign a new IP. Unfortunately it will tend to assign the same IP address over and over again unless it gets snatched up by another computer between release and renew.

If it's anonymity you want then you need to use proxies to mask your router's IP address. TOR is a pretty simple solution.

Because the way this new law is written ANYONE running a nat'ed router (which is just about everyone) would be required to keep a log file of what internal IP address was used with what PC. If the router keeps assigning new internal IP's moment to moment.....

[Pirate Bill]

Originally Posted by Moonliner

If the router keeps assigning new internal IP's moment to moment.....

Then it's going to be logging which PC got that IP with each change too. It won't mask behavior. It will just make the logs all that much bigger. It would be easier to just to turn off the log.

I can't see how the government is going to force me to run software that I don't want to run on computers that I own.

[Moonliner]

Originally Posted by Pirate Bill

I can't see how the government is going to force me to run software that I don't want to run on computers that I own.

That's the point. Assuming the law passes and you don't then they can charge you with obstruction or something similar.

[Pirate Bill]

They can have my router when they pry it from my cold dead hands.

Incidentally, I am currently logging all my network traffic. It logs which external IP address is connecting with which internal IP address and how much data is being transferred. I do this so I can "spy" on my own network. (Mainly to track bandwidth use and raise redflags for anything weird or suspicious...and because I can and I was curious. )