On 11/10/2011, at 4:38 PM, Dave Cridland wrote: > On Tue Oct 11 15:12:13 2011, Daniel Fischaleck wrote: >> Does anyone know what kind user this is? I fear of this person abusing my >> server for some illegal activities. Due to privacy reasons i do not want to >> analyze his traffic. > > I am not a lawyer, but in my opinion... > > No, analyse the traffic. > > Either it's suspect - in which case you need to find out - or else it's not - > in which you quietly forget what you saw and don't pass it on (beyond telling > this group the users are legitimate). > > Breaking privacy would involve looking at the traffic, deciding it was > legitimate, and then telling people about the conversations these people were > having. > > On the other hand, by publishing the address, you've already breached data > confidentiality laws in some jurisdictions...
The comment below is based on the work I've done around the Australian Privacy and Copyright Acts, and being in the industry for a while. In some jurisdictions merely intercepting the data is illegal, but in practice law enforcement turns a blind eye if the activity is for legitimate trouble shooting by the body managing the traffic for the 'customer', whether that's the sender or recipient. > > Dave. > -- > Dave Cridland - mailto:[email protected] - xmpp:[email protected] > - acap://acap.dave.cridland.net/byowner/user/dwd/bookmarks/ > - http://dave.cridland.net/ > Infotrope Polymer - ACAP, IMAP, ESMTP, and Lemonade -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Instant Messaging Archiving by Cleartext - http://www.cleartext.com/im --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
