RE: Hey, I DON'T WANT a firewall in front of my network!

[Paul D. Robertson]

On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, Frank Knobbe at Home wrote:

> Let me toss my 2 pennies in here.
> 
> a) I seem to remember that when you get hacked, the law is not in
> your favor because you did not employ 'reasonable measures' to
> protect your assets.

As nice as it would be if there were some accountability, the law is in
your favor because the attacker broke the law.  The questions about
reasonable and prudent practice come mostly from your liability if your
site is used to attack another site, or if your company suffers
shareholder lawsuits due to a breach.  I haven't seen any
significant caselaw in this area specificly relating to computer
intrustions though, so it's not so cut and dried.

The other penny wasn't too bad though...

Paul
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