Re: Open Letter to D-Link about their NTP vandalism

["Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law" <froomkin () law miami edu>]

<law professor> I'd really suggest that readers confirm this claim (that 
intentional sending of false data with a malicious purpose is perfectly 
acceptable) with a local lawyer before trying it at home or at work.</law 
professor>

I also bet that the claim of widespread acceptability would fail badly if 
we weigh countries by population.  Or even connectivity.

Not to mention the fact that your packets might stray across borders
sometimes.

On Tue, 11 Apr 2006, Alexei Roudnev wrote:

> It's legal to have broken NTP server in ANY country, and it's legal in most
> (by number) countries to send counter-attack (except USA as usual, where
> lawyers want to get their money and so do not allow people to self-defence).

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