UK ISPs not cooperating with law enforcement
Steven M. Bellovin
smb at research.att.com
Sat Mar 8 01:47:41 UTC 2003
In message <NFBBJLNCOLKBLIJLHFIGMEEECEAA.mborchers at igillc.com>, "Mark Borchers"
writes:
>
>> It difficult to tell from the article whether UK ISPs are refusing to
>> cooperate with lawful requests from UK police, or if UK police are
>> trying to get ISPs to give information without proper authorization.
>>
>> http://www.computerweekly.com/articles/article.asp?liArticleID=119873
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>It's difficult to argue with the premise that "it was in the interests of
>ISPs to co-operate in investigations against hackers and virus writers".
>
>I can recall posts to this list bemoaning the fact that the FBI was slow
>or unwilling to launch cybercrime investigations not tied espionage,
>terrorism, or other good, old-fashioned crime.
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I haven't checked the law since the Patriot Act was passed. Prior to
that, however, in the U.S. the law *prohibited* communications carriers
from giving certain information to the government without a warrant --
but they were free to give it or sell it to anyone else.
http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/18/2703.html see (c)(1)(A)
--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb (me)
http://www.wilyhacker.com (2nd edition of "Firewalls" book)
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