On Tue, 20 Jul 1999, Brian Steele wrote:
> Just to side-track this thread a little - I just received a call from
> someone in California, who said that one of our local dialup Internet
> customers was hacking his system! We determined who the customer was, but
> the problem is, what should our next step be? There are no local laws
> regarding hacking. Simply disabling the dialup account might open ourselves
> up to a lawsuit from the customer, particularly as we are the only providers
> of Internet service on the island (Grenada, West Indies).
I'm not a lawyer, but it seems to me that if you have an anti-cracking
policy stated in your terms of service, you're probably in the clear to
disable the account, and if you don't, you should get one RSN (real soon
now).
I once thought that you shouldn't need to care but everyone's trying to
make ISPs responsible for the actions of their users, which I personally
hate. The only person who should be held responsible for a person's
actions is the person acting. But in our modern society that isn't
enough, we need to have lots of people to blame.
Er, ah, point is you must CYA.
Derek D. Martin | UNIX System Administrator
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