-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Date: Fri, 13 Oct 1995 18:42:35 -0400 (EDT) From: Tom Edwards <tedwards@access.digex.net> Well folks, you can go view the new PA law yourselves at URL http://moose.erie.net/~italo/rssb655.html PA Senate Bill 655 was signed into law on June 13, 1995, and it does appear to make non-logged anonymous remailers illegal. I'm guessing that you're referring to this part of the law: (1) [makes or possesses any instrument, apparatus, equipment or] makes, distributes, possesses, uses or assembles an unlawful telecommunication device or modifies, alters, programs or reprograms a telecommunication device designed, adapted or which can be used: . . . (ii) to conceal or to assist another to conceal from any [supplier of telecommunications] telecommunicationservice provider or from any lawful authority the existence or place of origin or of destination of any telecommunication; or IANAL, but this sure sounds like one could make the case that an ISP that allowed users to send mail to arbitrary addresses, e. g. xxx@anon.penet.fi, would be `guilty' of assisting another to conceal the place of origin and/or destination of a telecommunication. I'd imagine that the authorities would be a bit more likely to go after anonymous-remailer@xxx.net however. In fact, I wonder if the fact that mail to rfb@cmu.edu is forwarded to rfb@lehman.com couldn't be construed as `assistance' if I happened to receive mail at that address through penet. Sigh . . . . -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBMH/p8JNR+/jb2ZlNAQHnTgP/eycb4eJaVDVw9UTmb82ErzR29dnGSrvT cdaGq8HoUYV1fjwzfD6aW3B8tiPkM9tcpbV5ck3LnNU7Ylgq3S8T8Zg/JNkdf0jE J8+KO8HhONNjBgA4hRcEkrnZrHwu3S6BknxgQ+ERCASj7XRybk62pkWGciuoUZyp FfFtv6FAS1E= =vIYn -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Rick Busdiecker Please do not send electronic junk mail! net: rfb@lehman.com or rfb@cmu.edu PGP Public Key: 0xDBD9994D www: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/user/rfb/http/home.html send mail, subject "send index" for mailbot info, "send pgp key" gets my key A `hacker' is one who writes code. Breaking into systems is `cracking'.