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Re: question regarding US requirements for journaling public email (possible legislation?)
From: Steven Bellovin <smb () cs columbia edu>
Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2012 08:59:50 -0500
On Jan 5, 2012, at 11:05 37PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
There's no shortage of stuff that reaches you 80..90 days after the fact The UK voluntary retention rules make a lot more sense, compared to "a few days", which is entirely impractical On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 9:30 AM, <Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu> wrote:You need to track down a miscreant user *right now*? You got the last 48 hours of logs right at hand. It's been a week? Meh, if somebody's been getting hit by a DDoS for a week and is just now calling you, the fact they have a DDoS is the least of their problems. Toss the logs. :)
The answer from the EFF is the same: retain what *you* have an operational or administrative need for. This is very different from a legislative mandate for multiyear retention. --Steve Bellovin, https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
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- RE: question regarding US requirements for journaling public email (possible legislation?), (continued)
- RE: question regarding US requirements for journaling public email (possible legislation?) Eric J Esslinger (Jan 05)
- Re: question regarding US requirements for journaling public email (possible legislation?) William Herrin (Jan 05)
- Re: question regarding US requirements for journaling public email (possible legislation?) Valdis . Kletnieks (Jan 05)
- Re: question regarding US requirements for journaling public email (possible legislation?) Fred Baker (Jan 05)
- Re: question regarding US requirements for journaling public email (possible legislation?) Steven Bellovin (Jan 05)
- Re: question regarding US requirements for journaling public email (possible legislation?) John Adams (Jan 05)
- Re: question regarding US requirements for journaling public email (possible legislation?) Suresh Ramasubramanian (Jan 05)
- Re: question regarding US requirements for journaling public email (possible legislation?) Valdis . Kletnieks (Jan 05)
- Re: question regarding US requirements for journaling public email (possible legislation?) Suresh Ramasubramanian (Jan 05)
- Re: question regarding US requirements for journaling public email (possible legislation?) Steven Bellovin (Jan 06)
- Re: question regarding US requirements for journaling public email (possible legislation?) Suresh Ramasubramanian (Jan 05)