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Jail Time for Honeypots?


From: Eko Sulistyo <idsulistyo () yahoo com>
Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2003 11:00:35 -0700 (PDT)

When I brwose around I find this interesting
http://www.broadbandreports.com/shownews/27605

A Justice Department attorney warned this week that
using a honeypot, or "wireless mousetrap" for research
or otherwise could put you on the wrong side of the
law. According to this Security Focus article, using
honeypots could backfire by allowing the person you
monitor to launch a lawsuit, as well as run afoul of
federal wiretapping laws. "There are some legal issues
here, and they are not necessarily trivial, and
they're not necessarily easy," says Richard Salgado,
attorney for the Department of Justice's computer
crime unit. Honeypots could be considered as
"interception of communications," a felony that
carries up to five years in prison.

For full story :
http://www.securityfocus.com/news/4004

Wow, I'm shocked. And all this time I thought we are
the good guys....
That's make me wonder. It seems we have to change the
color of our hat to gray, or even worse, black. ^_^





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