North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Monitoring, Flow Stats (Re: spam whore, norcal-systems)
On Mon, Feb 01, 1999 at 06:16:58PM -0500, Jared Mauch wrote: > On Mon, Feb 01, 1999 at 05:54:36PM -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. > > Interesting coroloary, > > Is it illegal for me to do flow-stats, as that examines packets > (in the same way one would filter), causing this data to be stored on > my flow stats server? > For those of you playing at home, this document can be found at: http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/18/2511.html This would appear to be covered in sec 18 USC 2511(2)(a) Then again, I'm no lawyer, and I really don't have the brain capacity to follow the threading of USC. I'm sorry if this was a boo boo move on my part. -r
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