Re: layered deception

2001-05-01 Thread Harmon Seaver
Greg Broiles wrote: > Hmm. Can you identify any problems with log files as evidence which aren't > also present in, say, eyewitness testimony, audiotape recordings, video > recordings, fingerprints, photographs, tool & die marks, paper records, and > all of the other evidence which courts admit o

Re: layered deception

2001-05-01 Thread Greg Broiles
At 11:00 PM 5/1/2001 -0500, Harmon Seaver wrote: > Has anyone given any though to how log files could be accepted as >evidence in the first place? They're just text files, and exceedingly >trivial to alter, forge, erase, whatever. They get edited all the time >by hackers -- how can anyone,

Re: layered deception

2001-05-01 Thread Jon Beets
One thing to also remember is that standard log files are nothing more than text files and can be faked fairly easily... Which would make it wide open for a defending attorney to argue against.. Jon - Original Message - From: "Ray Dillinger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Se

Re: layered deception

2001-05-01 Thread Harmon Seaver
Has anyone given any though to how log files could be accepted as evidence in the first place? They're just text files, and exceedingly trivial to alter, forge, erase, whatever. They get edited all the time by hackers -- how can anyone, even the sysadmin, swear that they are "true"? We just

RE: layered deception

2001-05-01 Thread Ray Dillinger
On Tue, 1 May 2001, David Honig wrote: >Is it in fact a crime of fraud to advertise that you don't keep logs >when in fact you do? If someone winds up losing money (or suffering other damages) because of it, it is at least a tort. If you were planning some kind of money-making scam that hinge

RE: layered deception

2001-05-01 Thread Aimee Farr
Tim: > On Tuesday, May 1, 2001, at 06:05 PM, Aimee Farr wrote: > > > Honig: > > > >> Is it in fact a crime of fraud to advertise that you don't keep logs > >> when in fact you do? > > > > Seems deceptive... > > > > A profound new insight. deceptive trade practices depend on context > We still a

Re: "President Bush charged with child pornography law violations"

2001-05-01 Thread Declan McCullagh
For those who didn't catch the broadcast: http://www.thescotsman.co.uk/world.cfm?id=68212 Expose of Bush's brother rocks Washington -- with laughter -Declan On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 05:01:41AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > WASHINGTON, D.C. (Routers News Service) -- President George W. Bush w

Re: The issue of "logs" is a 1A issue, not a matter of "funding"

2001-05-01 Thread Tim May
On Tuesday, May 1, 2001, at 07:33 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > At Tue, 1 May 2001 18:14:38 -0700, Tim May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> The real argument is that commanding a person to keep records of whom >> he communicates with (which is what a log of messages is all about) is >> a slam dun

Re: The issue of "logs" is a 1A issue, not a matter of "funding"

2001-05-01 Thread aluger
At Tue, 1 May 2001 18:14:38 -0700, Tim May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >The real argument is that commanding a person to keep records of whom >he communicates with (which is what a log of messages is all about) is >a slam dunk violation of the First Amendment. It is no more acceptable >than an

RE: (gray travel) - back to recording & laws of men stuff

2001-05-01 Thread David Honig
At 12:15 PM 4/30/01 -0500, Aimee Farr wrote: >Sunder on Honig: > >> David Honig wrote: >> > >> > The term 'grey man' is also used by R. Tomlinson in _The Big Breach_ >> > where it means basically the same, an observer/tail/Gargoyle >> who blends in. >> >> Erm, perhaps, but "Gargoyle" has a complet

RE: layered deception

2001-05-01 Thread David Honig
At 12:13 AM 4/30/01 -0400, Phillip H. Zakas wrote: >i agree...unless you're specifically directed to do so, maintaining log >files is completely optional. Is it in fact a crime of fraud to advertise that you don't keep logs when in fact you do?

The issue of "logs" is a 1A issue, not a matter of "funding"

2001-05-01 Thread Tim May
On Tuesday, May 1, 2001, at 03:51 PM, David Honig wrote: > At 09:17 AM 4/30/01 -0400, Matthew Gaylor wrote: >> I remember having lunch a while back with Loki and the topic of logs >> come up- He mentioned that his company fully and completely complies >> with warrants for all logs, especially ea

RE: BSE

2001-05-01 Thread David Honig
>> The idealism that I refer to is the >> concept that human beings can create >> something substantially better than >> what exists. > This is the fundamental driving force of all human endeavor incl. tech., ag., etc. Make your kids' situation better than yours. Everything follows.

Re: layered deception

2001-05-01 Thread Tim May
On Tuesday, May 1, 2001, at 06:05 PM, Aimee Farr wrote: > Honig: > >> Is it in fact a crime of fraud to advertise that you don't keep logs >> when in fact you do? > > Seems deceptive... > A profound new insight. We still await some real insights from a real graduate student (!), beyond her say

RE: layered deception

2001-05-01 Thread Aimee Farr
Honig: > Is it in fact a crime of fraud to advertise that you don't keep logs > when in fact you do? Seems deceptive... I look for the continued development of tortious evidentiary spoliation in a digital context, which includes negative legal presumptions, sanctions up to default judgmen

Re: Undermining government power and authority

2001-05-01 Thread David Honig
At 05:01 PM 4/28/01 -0700, James A. Donald wrote: >> communicate something valuable about important issues. And calling >> people drones, sheep and idiots right off the bat doesn't exactly >> seem like a winning public relations strategy. > >The sheeple are not listening. They are not going to li

Re: Technological Solution

2001-05-01 Thread David Honig
At 06:32 PM 4/28/01 -0700, Tim May wrote: >People don't need to spend several months wading through cryptography >textbooks to come up to a level that is sufficient to understand the >real issues.) > > >--Tim May In fact, crypto textbooks will teach you about the tensile strength of steel, but

Freeh Leaving...

2001-05-01 Thread aluger
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- FBI Director Louis Freeh announced Tuesday that he will resign his post in June. http://www.cnn.com/2001/ALLPOLITICS/05/01/freeh.resigns.02/index.html Free, encrypted, secure Web-based email at www.hushmail.com

FBI uses sniffed passwords to access server in russia - before obtaining a search warrant and without russian 'ok'

2001-05-01 Thread Phillip H. Zakas
"...the FBI...lured two suspected Russian hackers to Seattle with job offers at a fictitious security company. After monitoring the duo's connection to two servers in Russia, the FBI used the suspects' passwords to download incriminating data from those servers." the article points out this was d

"President Bush charged with child pornography law violations"

2001-05-01 Thread tcmay
WASHINGTON, D.C. (Routers News Service) -- President George W. Bush was arrested in a pre-dawn raid on his home in Washington this morning. He was charged with violations of Penile Code 42-666 for displaying a photograph of a young child in a state of full frontal nudity. --- Seriously, did