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Tell the ISP- it will create change
From: "Gregory W. Ratcliff" <gratcliff () argusnetsec com>
Date: Sat, 2 Nov 2002 21:14:04 -0500
Ohio has recently beefed up their "snooping, spoofing, and sniffing" laws. Last week I attended a panel discussion with the Assistant to the Attorney General of Ohio: First---he started with a discussion indicating that it's a Felony 5 offense if someone "uses" the computing facilities of an organization. Examples of this include sending mail into someone else's SMTP server, even if it's a honey pot. F5 is no jail first offense, up to 18 months for second, but some very serious fines. Second--if you don't report a felonious act, then you can be charged also; Probably not going to happen--but that's the way the law reads. Furthermore, that law protects you from any confidentiality agreement you have, but has far as the AAG knew, there was no way to report anonymously. Many companies don't want it to be known if they were compromised---I guess I can understand. Not too long ago an Ohio bank was hacked....when it hit the papers there was a small "run" on that bank--sure it was too late then, but you know how these things go. This is our part, to educate our managers and executives that it improves things to get it out in the open. What's the point? When you send a message to the ISP, be sure to mention that you're sending it to the local Sheriff too. Too tough? I used to think "live and let live"--but we seen 10's of thousands of probes and attacks to our systems--one time it could really get expensive. Greg Ratcliff Argus Network Security Services www.argusnetsec.com ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: ApacheCon, November 18-21 in Las Vegas (supported by COMDEX), the only Apache event to be fully supported by the ASF. http://www.apachecon.com _______________________________________________ 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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