[94666] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: what the heck do i do now?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Owen)
Wed Jan 31 22:33:33 2007
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.62.0702011613130.16955@maverick.blakjak.net>
From: Chris Owen <owenc@hubris.net>
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 21:29:29 -0600
To: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
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On Jan 31, 2007, at 9:16 PM, Mark Foster wrote:
>> list... I talked to my lawyer. And while I am not a lawyer, I can
>> tell you that my lawyer pointed out several interesting legal
>> theories under which I could have some serious liability, and so I
>> don't do that any more. (As an example, consider what happens *to
>> you* if a hospital stops getting emailed results back from their
>> outside laboratory service because their "email firewall" is
>> checking your server, and someone dies as a result of the delay)
>>
>> So while I think you'd be justified in doing it, I think you'd
>> find that 1) lots of people wouldn't change their configs at all,
>> and 2) you might find that your liability insurance doesn't cover
>> deliberate acts.
>>
>
> Uhm. I don't follow?
I my experience, people who tell stories like this really just need
to get a better lawyer. I've had several lawyers contact us on
things about this lame and have found that that the one sentence
reply letter is often the most effective:
Dear Sir:
Kiss my what?
Never hear from them again.
Chris
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