what are the legal risks for work monitoring network

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Joseph Lorenzo Hall [joehall () gmail com]
Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2008 7:00 PM
To: David Farber
Cc: Matthew Tarpy
Subject: Re: [IP] what are the legal risks for work monitoring network

On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 2:44 PM, David Farber <dave () farber net> wrote:
> ________________________________________
> From: Matthew Tarpy [tarpy () tarpify com]
> Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2008 4:59 PM
> To: David Farber
> Subject: RE: [IP] Researchers could face legal risks for work monitoring Tor network
>
> Hi Dave--
>
> I have a question for the folks on the list, regarding network traffic transiting a network.
>
> The legal liability the researchers face, as I understand it is that they set up Tor nodes, and then peeked into the 
> packets that transited their network via the nodes. Given the discussion around this and DPI, could someone provide a 
> primer or a pointer to a primer as to what is considered legal and illegal for network operators to do for traffic 
> that transits their network?


Great question!  My colleague Aaron Burstein here at the Samuelson
Law, Technology and Public Policy Clinic published a paper on legal
issues with network research:

http://www.icir.org/vern/cs294-28/papers/burstein_legal_leet.pdf

Here are the slides and notes from the talk:

http://www.icir.org/vern/cs294-28.Spr08/scribe/CybersecurityLaw-20080414.pdf
http://www.icir.org/vern/cs294-28/scribe/Legal.pdf

Like usability and security (to name two) it's best to get good input
on these issues during the research design stage of an experiment or
development process.  best, Joe

--
Joseph Lorenzo Hall
UC Berkeley School of Information
http://josephhall.org/



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