J. Oquendo wrote:
On Thu, 12 Mar 2009, Glen Turner wrote:
William Allen Simpson wrote:
A telecommunications carrier releasing a customer's details without their
permission, to a non-investigatory third party, without a court order.
Hmmm. It's certainly illegal here in Australia. And last I checked wasn't
the US firm Hewlett Packard in trouble for hiring people to do just that?
Hey, bad quotation! I'm not from Australia. That's not my writing. Nor
did I ever advocate releasing a customer's details -- to anybody. :-(
I also disagree with your point about responsibilities of ISPs. Yes, it's
true that Microsoft externalized its costs upon its customers.
But only the ISPs are in a position to detect the abuse, and that's part of
the business. Some of us take network security seriously.
