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Re: Legal Question about privacy
From: Dave Dittrich <dittrich () cac washington edu>
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 14:02:53 -0700 (PDT)
On Wed, 23 Jul 2003, Dan Bernard wrote:
On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 11:12:04AM -0400, Mark Hahn wrote: ..Just to be perfectly clear about the subject of my post, it addresses the rights of others, not the hacker, who have conversations with the hacker. (The hacker himself, clearly a nefarious ne'er-do-well, has abrogated all rights to privacy by his own actions.).. In response to that, I'll stay close to my original supposition that if the communications were not supposed to be secure, then they are essentially open.
That is not what several lawyers have told me. Just because it is technically feasible to monitor some technology (e.g., 802.11, cordless phones...) that does *not* make the expectation of privacy go away, nor make it legal to monitor it.
If said conversations with third parties took place over a secured (encrypted) channel to another network, then I suppose it would not be fair to deny the third parties their rights.
The use of encryption (or even passwords in an IRC channnel) show an effort to protect the communications, thus increasing the expectation of privacy in those communications. -- Dave Dittrich Computing & Communications dittrich () cac washington edu University Computing Services http://staff.washington.edu/dittrich University of Washington PGP key http://staff.washington.edu/dittrich/pgpkey.txt Fingerprint FE97 0C57 0843 F3EB 49A1 0CD0 8E0C D0BE C838 CCB5
Current thread:
- Re: Legal Question about privacy Dan Bernard (Jul 23)
- Re: Legal Question about privacy Dave Dittrich (Jul 24)
- Re: Legal Question about privacy Stefan Kelm (Jul 28)
- Re: Legal Question about privacy t. elam (Jul 28)
- Re: Legal Question about privacy Stefan Kelm (Jul 28)
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- RE: Legal Question about privacy dave kleiman (Jul 24)
- Re: Legal Question about privacy Valdis . Kletnieks (Jul 24)
- RE: Legal Question about privacy dave kleiman (Jul 24)
- Re: Legal Question about privacy Valdis . Kletnieks (Jul 24)
- RE: Legal Question about privacy dave kleiman (Jul 24)
- Re: Legal Question about privacy Valdis . Kletnieks (Jul 24)
- Re: Legal Question about privacy Jack Cleaver (Jul 24)
- Re: Legal Question about privacy Valdis . Kletnieks (Jul 24)
- Re: Legal Question about privacy Dave Dittrich (Jul 24)