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RE: American laws on compromised server legal respo nsibilities
From: "Cessna, Michael" <MCessna () rtm com>
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 09:44:56 -0500
A thread of this topic was on the firewalls list last summer. After a lot of back and forth posting it seems that no one knows. The best topic was that of a conviction through negligence, the analogy given was that if you leave your car unlocked and the keys in it and someone steals it and commits a crime, then since you were negligent in securing your car you were liable in part for the crime committed, how much liability you carry was not discussed. Try searching the firewalls () lists gnac net, I'm pretty sure the thread was from last summer. Good luck with this thorny issue, Mike -----Original Message----- From: Ian Masters [mailto:ian () pineapple co jp] Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2002 10:04 PM To: snort-users () lists sourceforge net Subject: [Snort-users] American laws on compromised server legal responsibilities This may be a little off topic, but I think it might apply to many users of this list. Do any of our USA list members know if there are any American laws directly pertinent to the legal responsibilities of the owner of a server that has been compromised and used to attack a third party. It looks to me as though even under Tort law it would be difficult to bring a case, where there is no contract between the the owner of the damaged server and the owner of the compromised server. If anyone has any information to the contrary, I'd be very grateful to hear about it. If you're able to point me in the direction of any resources I'd also be very grateful. The only documents of any use I've been able to find is at http://rr.sans.org/legal/liability.php http://rr.sans.org/legal/law.php and the legal section generally: http://rr.sans.org/legal/ Ian Masters Pineapple Company _______________________________________________ Snort-users mailing list Snort-users () lists sourceforge net Go to this URL to change user options or unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/snort-users Snort-users list archive: http://www.geocrawler.com/redir-sf.php3?list=snort-users
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- RE: American laws on compromised server legal respo nsibilities Cessna, Michael (Jan 28)
- RE: American laws on compromised server legal respo nsibilities Dan Hollis (Jan 28)