So this law is basically useless for anybody except a blackhat bent on damaging someone's reputation by connecting to an obvious honeypot with somebody else's IP address.
The government gets 2 powers out of this act:
1. The power to sue telecommunications companies that aren't capable of allowing them to easily spy on their customers: boos to you Rim and your encrypted e-mail, no love for a Canadian company.
2. The power to determine anybody's IP address and ISP granted e-mail address. I don't want them to have that information, because they are clearly stupid enough to act as if an IP address is a person.
Put together, maybe they want it to be easy to set up a honeypot? I don't think they will catch many flies. Maybe 30 years ago they would have, but not now.
Meanwhile, the child pornographers will continue to use TOR, and 14 year old boys and girls will still be charged by the police for producing child pornography (14-year old child pornographers? Sexting lawsuits get serious) although maybe we are still not so extreme in Canada.
The government gets 2 powers out of this act:
1. The power to sue telecommunications companies that aren't capable of allowing them to easily spy on their customers: boos to you Rim and your encrypted e-mail, no love for a Canadian company.
2. The power to determine anybody's IP address and ISP granted e-mail address. I don't want them to have that information, because they are clearly stupid enough to act as if an IP address is a person.
Put together, maybe they want it to be easy to set up a honeypot? I don't think they will catch many flies. Maybe 30 years ago they would have, but not now.
Meanwhile, the child pornographers will continue to use TOR, and 14 year old boys and girls will still be charged by the police for producing child pornography (14-year old child pornographers? Sexting lawsuits get serious) although maybe we are still not so extreme in Canada.