[46264] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: City apologizes for ORBZ shutdown....
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Schwartz)
Fri Mar 22 17:26:17 2002
From: David Schwartz <davids@webmaster.com>
To: <darkuncle@darkuncle.net>, Mike Donahue <mdonahue@WATG.com>
Cc: "'nanog@merit.edu'" <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 14:25:43 -0800
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=09I love it:
"The detective had no reason not to believe he was pursuing a=
hacker when he
issued a search warrant," Reen said. "The purpose of the search=
warrant was
to determine the identity of the person who sent the email that=
caused our
system to fail so we could then determine whether further=
investigation would
be necessary."
=09So now, instead of the legal system being the last recourse when=
reasonable
people can't settle their differences, it's the first place you=
go. No wonder
we're such a litigious society.
=09I think there's a tiny bit of an actual operational issue here.=
Apparently,
some people don't understand how to interact with each other=
about Internet
issues that cross providers. If there had been an actual=
malicious hacker, in
the time it took to get a search warrant and talk to ORBZ's=
attorney, many
other sites could have been compromised and the logging=
information needed to
track the perpetrator could have been lost.
David Schwartz
<davids@webmaster.com>
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