The Vice of Vice Presidential E-Mail

The Vice of Vice Presidential E-Mail
Mark Rasch, 2008-10-06

Is it a crime to read someone else’s e-mail without their consent?

The Vice of Vice Presidential E-Mail 2008-10-07
Anonymous (2 replies)

Yay, more legalities. Welcome to Securityunfocused....

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Re: The Vice of Vice Presidential E-Mail 2008-10-10
Drafterman (1 replies)

Laws are just as important to security as Firewalls and IDS's are.

Policies are what allow security to be more than simply preventative measures and laws are the highest level policies there are....

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Re: Re: The Vice of Vice Presidential E-Mail 2008-10-15
Anonymous (1 replies)

I quote "Laws are just as important to security as Firewalls and IDS's are" Surely you jest? When was the last time a hacker said "oh boy, I best not try to hack that network for it is against the law!". Laws are in place for a reason. I don't want to endlessly read about them and how they impact co...

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James (1 replies)

Laws do not merely create a deterrent, they also create options for when an incident does occur. The legal reaction to a break in is very much relevant. Though it may be somewhat of an overstatement to say the law is as important as the technical counter-measures, it is equally rash to suggest they ...

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Anonymous (1 replies)

None of my commentary should be taken as a personal attack of the columnist for it is not. I would really rather just see computer security centric articles on the site. By my logic, that does not include an endless litany of ones based on the legalities of computer security. ...

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Robert Lemos (1 replies)

Thanks for clarifying that, Anonymous.

SecurityFocus has two more columnists coming on board. The first will have his first column posted later today, and the second in a week. They will be focusing on the business of security and threats/privacy, respectively.

We will be interspersing guest ...

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Richie

Just to add, here's one vote to keep the legal articles coming. This is an area where we have a tremendous amount of confusion and misunderstanding. And for a security practitioner, this is a bread and butter issue. It affects whether we are able to do our job every day....

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Re: The Vice of Vice Presidential E-Mail 2008-10-11
Anonymous

Laws - Ya gotta love 'em.

Mostly because you have no other choice....

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The Vice of Vice Presidential E-Mail 2008-10-10
Anonymous

I feel like if this had happened to a regular person on the street, the authorities wouldn't bother an investigation. The only reason they're even pressing charges is because it happened to a politician....

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The Vice of Vice Presidential E-Mail 2008-10-11
Anonymous

The fact that there is a password and a security question should mean that it is in temporary storage. If I didn't mind other people reading my e-mail I would store it somewhere that does not require a password. The term "break-in" is used to descibe what the cracker did, and that is exactly what h...

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The Vice of Vice Presidential E-Mail 2008-10-21
Anonymous

I don't understand the break-in part. Yahoo put the password recovery feature out there for anyone to use it. When I try to recover a password on Yahoo, does it say, "if you are not "john Doe" of New York, NY bearing Social Security number 333-33-3333 then using this tool to recover your password is...

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The Vice of Vice Presidential E-Mail 2008-11-13
JHarp

I thought this was going to be about Dick Cheney being an Exchange admin. I forgot where I read that...havent heard anything since....

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The Vice of Vice Presidential E-Mail 2008-11-18
SpellingNazi

Mark, have you heard of a spell checker before? The quality of writing that I've seen on this and other online sites continues to degrade. I don't know how anyone can excuse misspelling of words like "Communicaitons" that would be easily caught by any spell checker....

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