[22890] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: spam whore, norcal-systems.net
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dean Robb)
Tue Feb 2 03:01:46 1999
Date: Tue, 02 Feb 1999 01:52:46 -0500
To: nanog@merit.edu
From: Dean Robb <pceasy@norfolk.infi.net>
In-Reply-To: <199902012317.SAA05659@merit.edu>
At 15:17 2/1/99 -0800, you wrote:
>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?
Of course you can. Dean likes to argue that any looking at, smelling of,
blocking of, rerouting of, counting packets of, etc., data is wiretapping
(the topic of 18 USC 2511).
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