[56418] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: UK ISPs not cooperating with law enforcement
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Borchers)
Fri Mar 7 19:08:58 2003
From: "Mark Borchers" <mborchers@igillc.com>
To: "Sean Donelan" <sean@donelan.com>, <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2003 18:04:07 -0600
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.44.0303071649060.25743-100000@clifden.donelan.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> It difficult to tell from the article whether UK ISPs are refusing to
> cooperate with lawful requests from UK police, or if UK police are
> trying to get ISPs to give information without proper authorization.
>
> http://www.computerweekly.com/articles/article.asp?liArticleID=119873
It's difficult to argue with the premise that "it was in the interests of
ISPs to co-operate in investigations against hackers and virus writers".
I can recall posts to this list bemoaning the fact that the FBI was slow
or unwilling to launch cybercrime investigations not tied espionage,
terrorism, or other good, old-fashioned crime.
