[22879] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: spam whore, norcal-systems.net
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (I Am Not An Isp)
Mon Feb 1 18:43:35 1999
Date: Mon, 01 Feb 1999 15:17:55 -0800
To: nanog@merit.edu
From: I Am Not An Isp <patrick@ianai.net>
In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19990201175023.00c17004@odie.av8.com>
At 05:54 PM 2/1/99 -0500, Dean Anderson wrote:
>This kind of monitoring is probably a direct violation of 18 USC 2511, as
>is a public announcement of the monitoring results. Indeed, at present, I'd
>say it appears to be the best example of an unauthorized 3rd party
>violation I've seen so far. (most [all previous] people don't admit
>details, but we know some do it). Unless of course you have authorization
>from norcal or all the recipients of those 2 million packets to monitor.
>Since norcal isn't your customer, I don't suppose you have any paper
>showing they gave you permission to collect and publish information about
>their traffic.
What type of monitoring are you talking about? Or are you saying I cannot
filter packets through my network as I please?
> --Dean
TTFN,
patrick
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