On ISPs Not Filtering Viruses

[Nicholas Brawn]

On Monday, January 7, 2002, at 08:04 AM, John Young wrote:

<snip>

> After hearing this we better understand the possibility that
> sysadmins and customer support personnel may have a variety
> of reasons for refusing to filter besides indolence and poor
> service -- that snooping and snarfing systems may installed,
> that a dragnet operation may be underway which covers the
> territory of your machines though not necessarily targeting
> you, or you may in fact be a specific target, authorized or
> unauthorized.

Within Australia, it is a legal requirement for carriers to support 
snooping systems. In the event of a customer being monitored, it may not 
be disclosed to the customer.

Cheers,
Nick

--
Real friends help you move bodies.




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