Re: Draft of Rep. Berman's bill authorizes anti-P2P hacking
Would malicious actions on the part of copyright holders violate the AUP of most networks? Or are service providers more willing to tolerate denial of service attacks by large corporations than say, spam? If this legislation is passed, they certainly will earn Null0 on mine. Regards, James Thomason On Wed, 24 Jul 2002, Marshall Eubanks wrote: Thought this would be considered on-topic as guess who would have to clean up the resulting messes... Regards Marshall Eubanks - Forwarded message from Declan McCullagh [EMAIL PROTECTED] - From: Declan McCullagh [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: FC: Draft of Rep. Berman's bill authorizes anti-P2P hacking To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2002 20:29:35 -0400 X-URL: http://www.mccullagh.org/ X-URL: Politech is at http://www.politechbot.com/ http://news.com.com/2100-1023-945923.html?tag=politech Could Hollywood hack your PC? By Declan McCullagh July 23, 2002, 4:45 PM PT WASHINGTON--Congress is about to consider an entertainment industry proposal that would authorize copyright holders to disable PCs used for illicit file trading. A draft bill seen by CNET News.com marks the boldest political effort to date by record labels and movie studios to disrupt peer-to-peer networks that they view as an increasingly dire threat to their bottom line. Sponsored by Reps. Howard Berman, D-Calif., and Howard Coble, R-N.C., the measure would permit copyright holders to perform nearly unchecked electronic hacking if they have a reasonable basis to believe that piracy is taking place. Berman and Coble plan to introduce the 10-page bill this week. The legislation would immunize groups such as the Motion Picture Association of America and the Recording Industry Association of America from all state and federal laws if they disable, block or otherwise impair a publicly accessible peer-to-peer network. Anyone whose computer was damaged in the process must receive the permission of the U.S. attorney general before filing a lawsuit, and a suit could be filed only if the actual monetary loss was more than $250. According to the draft, the attorney general must be given complete details about the specific technologies the copyright holder intends to use to impair the normal operation of the peer-to-peer network. Those details would remain secret and would not be divulged to the public. The draft bill doesn't specify what techniques, such as viruses, worms, denial-of-service attacks, or domain name hijacking, would be permissible. It does say that a copyright-hacker should not delete files, but it limits the right of anyone subject to an intrusion to sue if files are accidentally erased. [...] - POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ - Like Politech? Make a donation here: http://www.politechbot.com/donate/ - - End forwarded message - -- Regards Marshall Eubanks T.M. Eubanks Multicast Technologies, Inc 10301 Democracy Lane, Suite 410 Fairfax, Virginia 22030 Phone : 703-293-9624 Fax : 703-293-9609 e-mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.multicasttech.com Test your network for multicast : http://www.multicasttech.com/mt/ Status of Multicast on the Web : http://www.multicasttech.com/status/index.html
Re: Fwd: FOUND VIRUS IN MAIL
I could not get this virus to execute on my BSD box, the binary must be corrupt. Clearly this person did not study their target audience. Regards, James On 17 Jun 2002, Larry Rosenman wrote: Fair Warning -Forwarded Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: FOUND VIRUS IN MAIL from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 17 Jun 2002 22:48:16 -0500 A virus was found in an email from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The message was addressed to: - [EMAIL PROTECTED] The message has been quarantined as: /var/virusmails/virus-20020617-224816-21028 Here is the output of the scanner: Scanning /var/amavis/amavis-milter-4Oa4l925/parts/* Scanning file /var/amavis/amavis-milter-4Oa4l925/parts/msg-21028-1.txt Scanning file /var/amavis/amavis-milter-4Oa4l925/parts/msg-21028-2.html Scanning file /var/amavis/amavis-milter-4Oa4l925/parts/msg-21028-3.exe /var/amavis/amavis-milter-4Oa4l925/parts/msg-21028-3.exe Found the DDoS-Slack trojan !!! Summary report on /var/amavis/amavis-milter-4Oa4l925/parts/* File(s) Total files: ... 3 Clean: . 2 Possibly Infected: . 1 Here are the headers: - BEGIN HEADERS - Received: by trapdoor.merit.edu (Postfix) id 0FA7F9124E; Mon, 17 Jun 2002 23:46:02 -0400 (EDT) Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: by trapdoor.merit.edu (Postfix, from userid 56) id B621F9124F; Mon, 17 Jun 2002 23:46:01 -0400 (EDT) Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: from segue.merit.edu (segue.merit.edu [198.108.1.41]) by trapdoor.merit.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id A61099124E for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Mon, 17 Jun 2002 23:45:58 -0400 (EDT) Received: by segue.merit.edu (Postfix) id 8CCEA5DE57; Mon, 17 Jun 2002 23:45:58 -0400 (EDT) Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: from web21109.mail.yahoo.com (web21109.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.227.111]) by segue.merit.edu (Postfix) with SMTP id D92105DE52 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Mon, 17 Jun 2002 23:45:57 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: from [68.36.89.121] by web21109.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Mon, 17 Jun 2002 20:45:56 PDT Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2002 20:45:56 -0700 (PDT) From: jim bruer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: ConfigMaker Beta To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary=0-340633384-1024371956=:50295 Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Precedence: bulk Errors-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Loop: nanog -- END HEADERS -- -- Larry Rosenman http://www.lerctr.org/~ler Phone: +1 972-414-9812 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] US Mail: 1905 Steamboat Springs Drive, Garland, TX 75044-6749
RE: Stealth p2p network in Kazaa and Morpheus?....
And I wanted to download files, but certainly did not want to unwittingly support a CDN. Maybe everyone will simply cease using the software. It certainly would set a nice example for other corporations implementing spyware, and other unsavory features. Regards, James On Wed, 3 Apr 2002, Chris Boyd wrote: grouch Maybe ISPs and carriers can file a class action suit against these guys for something. I wanted to run a network, not manage someone else's distributed server farm. /grouch -Original Message- From: Craig Holland [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2002 6:35 PM To: Nanog@Merit. Edu Subject:Stealth p2p network in Kazaa and Morpheus? This was news to me, so I'm passing it along. Sorry if it's spam. Checked the archives, and didn't see anything to this affect. watch the wrap http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=storyu=/cn/20020402/tc_cn/stealth_p 2p _network_hides_inside_kazaa
