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RE: Jail Time for Honeypots?
From: "Scott Mraz" <SMraz () co riverside ca us>
Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2003 13:47:11 -0700
Well I certainly doubt that if one of us were in court facing charges you'd have a terrible time trying to convince a Judge that someone ATTACKING one of your computer systems would your fault. Believe me even if laws come into place that try to limit honeypots and like systems, they would never reach end result. I wouldn't be to worried, besides if deployed right a Honeypot/Net is virtually undetectable. I seriously doubt also that a black hat would want his "indescrestions" to come out in court to tri some guy running a honeypot. Just my 2 cents. -Scott -----Original Message----- From: CORNET.MIME."idsulistyo () yahoo com" [mailto:CORNET.MIME."idsulistyo () yahoo com"] Sent: Sat 4/19/2003 11:00 AM To: honeypots () securityfocus com Cc: Subject: Jail Time for Honeypots? When I brwose around I find this interesting http://www.broadbandreports.com/shownews/27605 A Justice Department attorney warned this week that using a honeypot, or "wireless mousetrap" for research or otherwise could put you on the wrong side of the law. According to this Security Focus article, using honeypots could backfire by allowing the person you monitor to launch a lawsuit, as well as run afoul of federal wiretapping laws. "There are some legal issues here, and they are not necessarily trivial, and they're not necessarily easy," says Richard Salgado, attorney for the Department of Justice's computer crime unit. Honeypots could be considered as "interception of communications," a felony that carries up to five years in prison. For full story : http://www.securityfocus.com/news/4004 Wow, I'm shocked. And all this time I thought we are the good guys.... That's make me wonder. It seems we have to change the color of our hat to gray, or even worse, black. ^_^ __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo http://search.yahoo.com
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