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Re: BCP38 - Internet Death Penalty

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Herrin)
Wed Mar 27 08:57:57 2013

In-Reply-To: <20130327024055.B1DAF319753C@drugs.dv.isc.org>
From: William Herrin <bill@herrin.us>
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2013 08:57:26 -0400
To: Mark Andrews <marka@isc.org>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 10:40 PM, Mark Andrews <marka@isc.org> wrote:
> Surveying which connections are open to address spoofing may or may
> not be a criminal activity.  It all depends on intent of the person
> gathering the data.

Such is the nature of law. When a dead body shows up shot, intent
(fancily called "mens rea") is the difference between murder,
manslaughter and self-defense.

Its true of source address spoofing. Its true of collusion and
anti-trust as well.

Regards,
Bill Herrin

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