Date sent: Wed, 06 Aug 2008 09:55:28 -0400 From: "Richard M. Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> The issue boils down to the judicial definition of an intercept in the > electronic age, in which packets of data move from server to server, > alighting for milliseconds before speeding onward. The ruling applies only > to the 9th District, which includes California and other Western states, but > could influence other courts around the country. > > In August 2007, Judge Florence-Marie Cooper, in the Central District of > California, ruled that the alleged hacker, Rob Anderson, had not intercepted > the > e-mails in violation of the 1968 Wiretap Act because they were technically in > storage, if only for a few instants, instead of in transmission. So, in California, is the Internet like the postal system, or like the telephone system? ====================== (quote inserted randomly by Pegasus Mailer) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is the bitterest pain among men, to have much knowledge but no power. - Herodotus victoria.tc.ca/techrev/rms.htm blogs.securiteam.com/index.php/archives/author/p1/ _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
