[olug] MPAA toolkit

Kevin sharpestmarble at gmail.com
Wed Nov 28 14:39:59 UTC 2007


I would say they are if they haven't applied due diligence. There is a
difference between turning a blind eye to illegal activities and being
blind. On a Home front, a person who operates an unsecured wireless
access point may be forgiven if they're in, say, marketing, have never
taken any computer security courses, have a single
spyware/virus/trojan horse/malware-ridden Win98 box. On the other
hand, you may not be forgiven if you teach courses in the Information
Security track.

What does this mean for universities or businesses in general? It
would apply more to management than to sysadmins. If management
doesn't care if you've got 800 MP3s from 400 well-known artists on
your HD, along with KaZaa/etc, then they're going to get dinged by
*IAA. But if people get fired for such activities after some
port-snooping, then the courts will be more lenient to such
businesses.

On Nov 28, 2007 7:55 AM, Luke -Jr <luke at dashjr.org> wrote:
> On Wednesday 28 November 2007, Barry Von Ahsen wrote:
> > Luke -Jr wrote:
> > > On Tuesday 27 November 2007, Will Langford wrote:
> > >> As far as I know, ISP's do keep track of when a person was
> > >> connected...
> > >
> > > Even if they do, this doesn't guarantee that IP's user is the customer.
> > > The most obvious case is a drive-by wireless user.
> > > I'm not aware of any law requiring us to log everyone who uses our
> > > network.
> >
> > not yet at least.  California has a bill that requires wlan equipment to
> > warn "unsecure wireless is bad, mkay" [1], and Westchester County, New
> > York has a law requiring your wlan to be secured (for businesses at
> > least) [2].  it's only a matter of time till the lawyers determine that
> > providing unsecured wireless access makes you an ISP, subject to their
> > rules and regs
>
> Then the question becomes what rules and regulations would be problematic.
> Are cable ISPs liable for illegal activity they can't trace?
>
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