Interesting parallels to my own ongoing case found in comp.risks: Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2001 10:12:13 PDT From: "Peter G. Neumann" <neumann@...> Subject:...
merlyn@...
Aug 26, 2001 2:16 pm
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See <http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2001/08/29/west/>, "How do you fix a leaky net?". This stuff scares me. And this is a federal case of felony-charging a...
merlyn@...
Aug 29, 2001 12:26 pm
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... None of these cases are about the simple process of whistleblowing. Sklyarov violated federal law by reverse-engineering software. If you focus on the...
Chris Nandor
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Aug 29, 2001 1:04 pm
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... Good points Chris. What about some kind of 'Code of Conduct' that suggests reasonable behaviour in light of security flaws? This could help illumnitate the...
jasons@...
Aug 29, 2001 7:05 pm
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... That's what we have judges and juries. Theoretically. In reality, as we all know, the system doesn't always work the way it was supposed to work. And then...
Dave Sill
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Aug 29, 2001 7:32 pm
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... But it's hard to explain technical issues (by definition), and it's especially difficult to explain them to legislators, prosecutors, judges, and juries....
Tom Phoenix
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Aug 29, 2001 8:24 pm
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] On Wed, 29 Aug 2001, Dave Sill wrote: ] ] > jasons@... wrote: ] > ] > >... We need a way to help the legal system show leniency when people ] > >were...
David Keegel
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Aug 30, 2001 12:16 am
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... I agree. But it won't be easy to accomplish, since I'm sure that most legislators (judges, juries, reporters, columnists, employers) think that "breaking...
Tom Phoenix
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Aug 30, 2001 2:42 pm
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... Tom> I agree. But it won't be easy to accomplish, since I'm sure that most Tom> legislators (judges, juries, reporters, columnists, employers) think that ...
merlyn@...
Aug 30, 2001 3:21 pm
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... The logical extension to this analogy is that having noticed the door is open, we step just inside the room to have a quick look - to see whether the...
Dave Mitchell
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Aug 30, 2001 3:56 pm
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... Or "to look if indeed this is the room we thought should be locked". A couple of guys here in NL noticed a window to the bank open at night when they were...
R.E.Wolff@...
Aug 30, 2001 4:26 pm
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* Dave Mitchell ... In the recent case the looking-around was made more problematic IMHO because the person took some photocopies of the papers on the table in...
Ralf Fassel
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Aug 30, 2001 4:29 pm
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At 01:24 -0700 2001.08.30, Dmitry Kohmanyuk ... He was in the United States. It is a bad law, but that doesn't change the fact that he was in the U.S. If I...
Chris Nandor
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Aug 30, 2001 5:18 pm
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... OK ... OK ... Oops. Not OK. It's not legal, and even if they have the best intentions, it's not safe. Suppose someone sees them enter and calls the cops?...
Dave Sill
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Aug 30, 2001 5:22 pm
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... How could he have broken a U.S. law while he was in Russia? If nosepicking is illegal in Denmark, does that mean I could be arrested if I ever go...
Dave Sill
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Aug 30, 2001 5:28 pm
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... If I steal Russian government secrets while I am in the United States, does that mean they have no grounds to arrest me if I ever go there? His actions, in...
Chris Nandor
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Aug 30, 2001 5:44 pm
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... You're right, that this is what we should do. But there is still an important legal principle. The principle is _not_ that Sklyarov wasn't in the US when...
Tom Phoenix
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Aug 30, 2001 6:07 pm
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... Right. But, again, the law in question is a law regarding harm done to someone (for example) in Idaho. If you harm someone in Idaho, then Idaho may have...
Chris Nandor
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Aug 30, 2001 6:14 pm
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... Tom> I agree. But it won't be easy to accomplish, since I'm sure that most Tom> legislators (judges, juries, reporters, columnists, employers) think that ...
Frossie
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Aug 30, 2001 7:11 pm
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... Agreed. As Randall argued in his trial, our computers (as agents of our bidding) access and modify the content of computers owned by other organizations...
jasons@...
Aug 30, 2001 7:59 pm
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... In that case, the bank's story IS: You only get access to the toilet, and if you'd be able to get out of that toilet, you wouldn't get access to anything...
R.E.Wolff@...
Aug 30, 2001 10:49 pm
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] On Thu, 30 Aug 2001, David Keegel wrote: ] ] > getting legislators to focus more on intent (eg: requiring clear ] > mal-intent for computer crime offenses)...
David Keegel
djk@...
Aug 31, 2001 1:51 am
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... Correct, but what was of equal significance, we felt, was the apparent truth that the application of statutes which are grounded in ancient real property ...
larryo@...
Sep 3, 2001 9:05 pm
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... I disagree. Double jeopardy is a concept that is separate and distinct from the notion of jurisdiction. For instance, an actor may be prosecuted for acts...
larryo@...
Sep 3, 2001 9:05 pm
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(I'm not a lawyer.) ] Sysadmins do things every day that, if their employer decides at a later ] time any one of which was "unauthorized," subject them to...
David Keegel
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Sep 4, 2001 12:20 am
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... David> In that case, if you could show that you didn't realise at the time David> that the act was "without authorization" (because you had implicit David>...
merlyn@...
Sep 4, 2001 12:36 am
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... One of the "problems" with your trial is that you should've said "NO" to the question: "Was this for personal gain?" . The way you answered that question...
R.E.Wolff@...
Sep 4, 2001 5:35 pm
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... R> One of the "problems" with your trial is that you should've said "NO" R> to the question: "Was this for personal gain?" . R> The way you answered that...
merlyn@...
Sep 4, 2001 6:03 pm
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... That you could, if it were not for ORS 161.115(1), which provides in part: (1) If a statute defining an offense prescribes a culpable mental state but does...
larryo@...
Sep 7, 2001 10:31 pm
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Friends, Randal told me the other day that a number of people had asked if they could help in any way, and I talked it over with Marc and here it is: We are...