Brian Steele wrote:
>
> Slightly off-topic: - could the owner of a LAN (be it company, university
> or whatever) be held responsible for a hack attack on another computer
> system originating from one of the computers on its network?
>
> The reason I ask this question is that I get the impression that people are
> paying the most attention to what comes IN through the Firewall, and little
> if any attention to what goes OUT through the same doorway.
>
> Brian Steele
>
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WARNING IANAL (I am not a lawyer)
I set in on an interetsing FBI discussion of this matter. There's a
really nasty leagl thing called "downstream liablity". Which basically
means that if you did you best and still got used as an attack
platform... you're safe. However, if the victim can show that you did
not attempt to secure yourself as a platform (or if you had been warned
about odd things comming form your network and did nothing) you could be
liable.
You can never be to paranoid. ;-)
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