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Re: Legal Question about privacy


From: Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 14:13:33 -0400

On Thu, 24 Jul 2003 14:28:07 BST, Jack Cleaver said:

Doesn't that mean that the third party has cause for action against *the
hacker* for failing to tell them that the conversation is passing over
an unencrypted radio link?

Probably not, although the third party would have cause for action against
anybody who was illegally intercepting the signal.

See 47 USC 605(a). http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/47/605.html

And remember guys - 605(a) means *YOU* if you forget to sanitize those logfiles
before posting them... ;)

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