Re: big increase in ftp scanning

[Florian Weimer <Florian.Weimer () RUS UNI-STUTTGART DE>]

Jan Muenther <jan () RADIO HUNDERT6 DE> writes:

> > Here in germany there are also some legal problems which sometimes
> > prevent identifying who was doing the scans. An ISP is only allowed to
> > keep his logs of who had which IP address at which time as long as he
> > needs it to bill the customer. At T-Online this is typically up to 4
> > or 6 weeks, so if you report an incident later, it is not possible for
> > T-Online to identify the customer.
>
> According to the TKG (Telekommunikationsgesetz -
> telecommunications act) every ISP has to keep the customer's
> connection logs for 100 days and after that has to delete the
> entries.

This time period was recently extended to six months, I think.
Strictly speaking, however, logging is only permitted for billing
purposes here in Germany.  Of course, in practice, this is handled
differently...

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