Lawsuits for falsyfying DNS responses ?

John Levine johnl at iecc.com
Tue Sep 13 14:58:43 UTC 2016


In article <c4dc7a7d-8295-e25c-5c76-7e17f682bf5b at gmail.com> you write:
>Canada's Anti-Spam Legislation has specific sections that makes altering 
>of data illegal under the Act.
>
>In my non-lawyer opinion, sections 10 (5) (b) and (e) would be violated 
>by hijacking someone preference to go to Website A and replace it with 
>Website B without their express consent to do so.

That section only applies to 10(4) which is about getting permission
to install downloaded software.

>Description of functions
>
>(5) A function referred to in subsection (4) is any of the following 
>functions ...

I don't think the Quebec law is a good idea, or is likely to be
effective, but I also don't think it has preemption issues.

R's,
John



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