Re: irc legaility

[Jim Geovedi <negative () magnesium net>]

Mister Coffee wrote:
> Simon Lorentsen wrote:
>
> > Hi guys / gals,
> >
> > Had a conversation tonight, and have been reading the IRC threads and 
> > wondered if anyone could answer the following.
> >
> > In the following scenario; you are a business, is IRC logs of 
> > conversations and lists of hosts be help up in a court of law if a 
> > client you spoke to refused to pay or hold up the end of a bargain or 
> > agreement, and is faxing a document (no hard copies sent via post) 
> > accepted as a legal document in a court of law.
> They could probably be introduced as evidence (email has, after all) but 
> their chances of holding up are fairly limited.  It's far too easy to 
> fake IRC channel and message logs for them to really convince a jury of 
> anything.
>
> If you had sevral logs, from different sources, and they were all the 
> same, it -might- carry a little more weight.

I agree. I think it will have more weight by having the authority
involved by doing extensive investigation (forensic) on lists of hosts
according to mentioned IRC logs to find similar logs.

Just my $0.02.



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