[oclug] tuesday afternoon rant about the FBI and an isp

[burns]

Francis Pinteric wrote:
> 
> --- Brad Barnett <bbarnett at l8r.net> wrote:
> > Quoting Vic Gedris <vic at worldwidepunk.com>:
> >
> > > On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, burns wrote:
> > >
> > > > Here's an idea... I can probably cajole a police high tech
> > crime
> > > person to
> > > > give a talk on this (port scanning, legalities, hacking
> > > technicalities,
> > > > etc.) at one of our OCLUG meetings if there is sufficient
> > interest.
> > > > Anyone interested?
> > >
> > > That would be very very interesting.  Is this person familiar
> > with Linux
> > > and open source too?  Would be interesting to have it from that
> > > perspective as opposed to just in "general".
> 
> Which branch of the law enforcment are you talking about? The RCMP
> asked me to do a similar talk for them about a year and a half ago.
> Maybe they've advanced a little since then.
> 

You were going to give the RCMP a lecture on law and law enforcement??
Francis, you wouldn't look good in one of their little pointy hats.

The aim here is not to provide a briefing on network "visitation"
techniques... we can figure that out. The aim is to get a briefing on
what the law says and doesn't say with regard to computing, e.g. what
constitutes an unlawful attack on your system etc. etc. etc.

-- 
burns