anybody who speaks German read this: http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/89086

My German is next to nonexistent, but I understand it's about the data retention provisions of the so-called LCEN law (+ law about trust in digital economy ;), more precisely Art. 6 of law 2004-575 dated 21 June 2004: http://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/texteconsolide/PCEBX.htm It's old news, unfortunately. These laws were voted in June 2004 by both ruling conservative parties (UMP and UDF), while the Socialist and Green parties voted against them. (Aside: there is a growing suspicion of an alliance between the ruling UMP party and media companies, something that would appear to be confirmed with the forcing through parliament of the infamous DADVSI laws in December 2005 through June 2006 by Christian Vanneste, Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres and Michhle Alliot-Marie, the latter being most probably our next prime minister. The position of the UDF party is less clear, at least to me. Aside ends.) According to our best-beloved government, LCEN is merely the transposition into French law of the European directive 2000/31/CE. The critics of the laws claim that LCEN goes beyond what the directive requires, but this might bear veryfing. The forthcoming electoral campaign for the French parliament might be a good time to campaign for revising the LCEN law. (If you're a French citizen, writing to your diputi or main opposition candidate is definitely a good idea.)

The first thing before anything will be that Tor is outlawed.

My understanding is that the data retention provisions of LCEN (Art. 6.II) only apply to service providers (as defined in Art. 6.I paragraphs 1 and 2), so it's not clear to me whether Tor servers are covered. On the other hand, Tor hidden services are clearly made illegal by Art. 6.III. (Punishable by up to one year in jail and a E$65000 fine.) Sorry for the off-topic post, Juliusz ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE