To report a botnet PRIVATELY please email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------- > There is no strong legal support. Its all mired and mashed in > what I call reDumbdant broad laws. Now what happens if say > I'm in Scandinavia somewhere, join an IRC server in Japan > which is linked and join that channel. I never traversed > through US networks, nor do US laws apply there. Then what. > Too many variables yet none will make sense because... > You ready... Take out the magnifying glass and read this > in much larger print: "There is not one law on the legalities > of an IRC channel" (shh don't tell).
This was (part of) my point. There is no legislation around this, so they have to use legislation that doesn't really fit - not like we haven't seen this before (DMCA anyone?). Unfortunately, I don't have exceptionally good notes on the laws being quoted - I will try to run that down, but I'm not promising anything. All I know is that one lawyer, in front of a number of techies, gave his interpretation of how he saw the situation from a legal perspective. There wasn't a single person in the room who agreed with him, and (probably) rightly so. That said, IMNSHO, anyone put before a jury of their "peers" has a 50/50 shot (at best). So, regardless of what legislation does or does not exist, I'm going to spend a fair bit of time to make sure I don't ever get in a situation where I have to find out which 50% I get. That's the only thing in this thread that I *know* - everything else is opinion or hearsay. -- S.f.Stover http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x15FFC42A _______________________________________________ To report a botnet PRIVATELY please email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] All list and server information are public and available to law enforcement upon request. http://www.whitestar.linuxbox.org/mailman/listinfo/botnets
