Re: Legal question

["Gregory Stark" <greg () securityguides com>]

I am not a lawyer so what follows is not legal advice.

One data point is the Electronic Communications
Privacy Act of 1986, http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/18/2701.html
which distinguishes between *authorized* access and the
unauthorized variety. The title of the section refers to
"stored" communications, so perhaps it is not relevant.


Greg Stark
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Crumrine, Gary L [mailto:CrumrineGL () state gov]
> Sent: Friday, January 14, 2000 5:51 AM
> To: firewall-wizards () nfr net
> Subject: Legal question
>
>
> After wearing out my fingers during a heated conversation with another
> colleague over legalities of certain actions, a question came up in my
mind
> concerning sniffers and their usage.
>
> If a sniffer was placed on the outside of a given network, and was
> configured to sniff packets coming from that network only, does this
> constitute an illegal wire tap?  And do the same rules apply to data as
they
> do voice?  In some cases it transits the same copper wire... ouch I am
> getting a headache..