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more on Police Blotter: Laptop border searches OK'd
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2006 11:39:07 -0400
Begin forwarded message: From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb () cs columbia edu> Date: July 28, 2006 11:20:29 AM EDT To: dave () farber net Cc: "Brock N. Meeks" <bmeeks () cox net> Subject: Re: [IP] more on Police Blotter: Laptop border searches OK'dOn Fri, 28 Jul 2006 10:06:22 -0400, David Farber <dave () farber net> wrote:
This is by no means hypothetical. Some years ago, I was asked to consultUnder this ruling, am I now responsible for my brother's or boss's or co-workers cache?
on an incident that appeared to be the first instance in the wild of DNScache contamination. The symptom: someone using a laptop would attempt to
go to a site, and instead got "interesting" pictures. (It could, of course, have been a monkey-in-the-middle attack, perhttp://www.ex-parrot.com/~pete/upside-down-ternet.html). The answer was a
lot more mundane: the browser was confused about its own cache, and theprevious user of that laptop had engaged in recreational web surfing from
some hotel room. --Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as lists-ip () insecure org To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
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