Imagine Bob owns an ISP...
Olav Stetter
nachwelt at web.de
Wed Dec 5 07:03:01 PST 2001
Hello everyone!
I thought the following question might be of interest: Imagine Bob owns an
ISP. Bob doesn't like government agencies very much and has (yet) no
surveillence equipment installed. Alice now makes a contract with Bob that he
provides internet access to Alice and she pays for it. If Bob is forced to
install Carnivore-like equipment or anything of the like, he promises to tell
Alice immediately. If he doesn't and Alice finds out, he has to pay [insert
very large sum here] $ to Alice.
Now what happens when Bob is legally (or otherwise) forced to make his
network a "patriotic" one and isn't allowed to tell Alice?
(as it is proposed in this "Convention on Cyber-Crime" by the European Union;
at least that is my reading, which may very well be wrong; but in fact it is
of no relevance here)
Thanks,
Olav Stetter
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