[ILUG] [Fwd: I fought the scammer... and I won.]

[kevin lyda]

On Mon, Apr 05, 2004 at 01:46:22PM +0100, kevin lyda wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 05, 2004 at 01:26:02PM +0100, Steffen Higel wrote:
> > I don't think so. I certainly hope not. At the end of the day, I suspected
> > a crime was being committed on our premises, confirmed this fact and then
> > told the gardai. I'm guessing that doesn't qualify as being an agent. I
> > don't know for sure. I'll ask a law student.
> 
> not only that, but it could lead to your servers being blacklisted.
> and generally could lead to your ip addresses being considered a source
> for unwanted internet traffic.  so there's an actual damage to your
> business.

btw, my "not only that" expression was in response to "I suspected a
crime was being committed".  essentially i was pointing out that there
is certainly cause for watching traffic like that.  whether it's legal
is a different story, but ethically i think steffen was on solid ground.

kevin

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