BCP38 - Internet Death Penalty

Mark Andrews marka at isc.org
Wed Mar 27 02:40:55 UTC 2013


In message <8277.1364350487 at turing-police.cc.vt.edu>, Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu w
rites:
> 
> On Wed, 27 Mar 2013 12:01:25 +1100, Mark Andrews said:
> >
> > If you are with a ISP that does not practice BCP 38 are you willing
> > to risk your neck that you won't be subject to a "aiding and abetting"
> > charge?  All of us here know that spoofing address like this is a
> > criminal activity.
> 
> So what you're saying is that every single person who ran the spoofing
> program to help the SAIL guys gather data is a criminal?

See my response to Jay.  I did not present this as a absolute.

Surveying which connections are open to address spoofing may or may
not be a criminal activity.  It all depends on intent of the person
gathering the data.

Mark
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