[18073] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: backbone transparent proxy / connection hijacking
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tom Perrine)
Fri Jun 26 11:14:24 1998
Date: Thu, 25 Jun 1998 17:11:38 -0700
From: Tom Perrine <tep@SDSC.EDU>
To: karl@mcs.net
CC: jlewis@inorganic5.fdt.net, nanog@merit.edu
In-reply-to: <19980625185614.02960@mcs.net> (message from Karl Denninger on
Thu, 25 Jun 1998 18:56:14 -0500)
>>>>> The moving finger of Karl Denninger, having written:
Karl> Well, I'd love to know where they think they get the authority to do this
Karl> from in the first place.... that is, absent active consent.
Karl> I'd be looking over contracts and talking to counsel if someone tried this
Karl> with transit connections that I was involved in. Hijacking a connection
Karl> without knowledge and consent might even run afoul of some kind of tampering
Karl> or wiretapping statute (read: big trouble).....
Hmmm,
Title 18, Chapter 119 - Wire and Electronic Communications Interception...
Sec 2511
Title 18, Chapter 1030 does not appear to apply.
Standard disclaimers *do*, however apply :-) See .sig for details.
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