SCO Chair's Anti-Porn Act Advances In Utah

iptables -A FORWARD writes "Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr. of Utah reportedly plans to sign a resolution urging Congress to enact the Internet Community Ports Act. The ICPA proposes that online content be divided by port, rather like TVs have channels with adult and family content, so that certain internet ports will be 'clean' — so-called Community Ports — and others will be 'dirty.' Thus, they hope to remove objectionable content from port 80 and require that it be moved elsewhere (port 666 was already taken by Doom, sorry), so that people could more easily block objectionable content, or have their ISPs do the blocking for them. This concept is being pushed by the CP80 group, which is chaired by Ralph Yarro, who also chairs the SCO Group. That probably explains why they didn't choose to adopt RFC 3514, instead."

Port 69

[Anonymous Coward]

666 is Doom, but how about 69?

Re:I believe I speak for all of us here ...

[jimstapleton]

No, Only SCO would think that the state government of Utah controls the world.

Anybody else would laugh - how the hell do they think that they can make this work, when most of the people in that industry AREN'T IN UTAH!

Enforceable?

[morgan_greywolf]

This is about as enforceable as the .xxx TLD. No matter what you do, you're not going to be able segregate the pr0n from other content. Unless you're SCO, I guess, then maybe you could sue those who don't comply by claiming that your intellectual property is on port 80, therefore you own all of the content on port 80 -- millions of lines of HTML!

Gah, get your definition straight!

[TheSpoom]

"There is this assumption that you can't control it (the Internet)," Yarro said. "It's a toaster, we made it, we can fix it. ... We can solve the Internet pornography problem tomorrow if we decided to."

Stupid legislators. It's not a fricking toaster, that's rediculous.

It's a series of tubes.

I thought we got that straight a few months ago!

Re:Enforceable?

[Whiney Mac Fanboy]

No matter what you do, you're not going to be able segregate the pr0n from other content.

Pah! All you have to do is see if the 'porn' bit is set in the headers.

Re:Port 69

[Flendon]

No wonder there is so much TFTP traffic on my network! Its full of porn!

So relieved to find out the internet is a toaster

[heroofhyr]

Now all we need is to figure out a way to get Yarro to open Firefox in the bathtub.

Re:I believe I speak for all of us here ...

[Dunbal]

Only SCO would think that the state government of Utah controls the world.

      Well Utah USED TO control the world, until IBM stole it!

Re:I believe I speak for all of us here ...

[SCPRedMage]

I know, my mind is still boggling over the sheer idiocy of RFC 3514. I mean, honestly, do you REALLY believe hackers are going to mark their packets as malicious?

Port Suggestions

[jasenj1]

How about:

80085

(I know it's not valid. It's a joke, son. Laugh.)

Re:I believe I speak for all of us here ...

[SCPRedMage]

Well Utah USED TO control the world, until IBM stole it!

I'd prove it, but IBM destroyed the evidence, too.

Re:shouldn't that read...

[SCPRedMage]

Hehe... you said penetration... hehe...

Re:I believe I speak for all of us here ...

[timster]

If they don't, then they are out of compliance with the spec. Besides, one of these days someone is going to use it as a legal defense. "Your Honor, the prosecution alleges that my client's DoS attack was intended to bring their systems down, but as you can see in this packet trace, he had the evil bit set. As RFC 3514 requires that firewalls drop all packets with the evil bit set, my client could not have possibly meant for these packets to actually get through."

Re:Port 69

[antonyb]

No, no, no. It stands for "Tube For The Porn". Its all about the Tubes, these days.

While we're at it, TCP stands for "Tube Carrying Porn", and IP is "Internet Porn", which goes to prove that the internet is founded on porn.

ant.

I for one

[Grashnak]

I for one welcome our content categorizing overlords. I look forward to getting a cushy government job in the new Ministry of Internet Content Categorization, where I will be paid big bucks to consider content before it is put online so that I can ensure that it is assigned its appropriate port number. For example, this idea could be assigned to Port 0, Dumbass Suggestions.

Re:I believe I speak for all of us here ...

[binarybum]

yeah, but I kinda like Mormon porn.

Someone set us up the pr0n

[CoolCph]

All your ports are belung to Utah

Re:shouldn't that read...

[SatanicPuppy]

I was going to make a hardcore double penetration input-in-the-output-port joke, but then I started thinking about how many networking geeks would jump all over the joke based on the fact that double penetrating the pron port would cause a tcp/ip collision, and therefore no penetration would occur, and I gave it up as a lost cause.

Re:I believe I speak for all of us here ...

[Anonymous Coward]

yeah, but I kinda like Mormon porn.

Six hot teen sisters, all married to the SAME MAN, and all of them PREGNANT!