[191406] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Lawsuits for falsyfying DNS responses ?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Levine)
Tue Sep 13 11:03:16 2016
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Date: 13 Sep 2016 14:58:43 -0000
From: "John Levine" <johnl@iecc.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
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In article <c4dc7a7d-8295-e25c-5c76-7e17f682bf5b@gmail.com> you write:
>Canada's Anti-Spam Legislation has specific sections that makes altering
>of data illegal under the Act.
>
>In my non-lawyer opinion, sections 10 (5) (b) and (e) would be violated
>by hijacking someone preference to go to Website A and replace it with
>Website B without their express consent to do so.
That section only applies to 10(4) which is about getting permission
to install downloaded software.
>Description of functions
>
>(5) A function referred to in subsection (4) is any of the following
>functions ...
I don't think the Quebec law is a good idea, or is likely to be
effective, but I also don't think it has preemption issues.
R's,
John
