The laws are written by people that understand the legal system ... not necessarily anything else. Every industry faces WTF? moments when it encounters laws that apply to it written by people that don't understand what they're doing. Politicians are by definition the only group that can do this because to correct/punish/educate them you need to be expert within their system:(
Sometimes politicians, or more often courts, come to the realization that a law is ridiculous and untenable and it is determined to be unenforceable .... but not often and never where there is $$$ involved. On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 2:38 PM, Mel Walters <melwalt...@telus.net> wrote: > On Fri, 2015-01-23 at 15:13 -0700, Greg King wrote: > > I got a call today from someone who claimed to be with the "Canada > Public Safety Agency" saying my "cyber id" had been traced to spam emails > and he needed access to my PC to check it. He gave me a name (probably > bogus) and a phone number of an actual federal government agency > http://www.publicsafety.gc.ca/index-eng.aspx but his caller id didn't > match the number. I told him off and hung up. I'm thinking this was a > missed opportunity to fire up a honeypot and let the caller take control of > it and delve into what he was trying to do. > > > > Has anyone done this? I've googled around and see there a some open > source distros in this area and am leaning towards Stratagem. I have no > idea how much work it is to support one of these or if I will get any > useful data from it, other than the satisfaction of screwing with the > scammers. I'd be interested in hearing others experience with honeypots. > > > > BTW I called the government agency and there must be a lot of this going > on because their recorded message says that if you got a call from them to > ignore it - it is a phishing attempt, and to report it to the anti fraud > centre which I did > http://www.antifraudcentre-centreantifraude.ca/english/reportit-howtoreportfraud.html > . > > > > Greg > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > clug-talk mailing list > > Hi Greg, > > I have been getting way to many annoying calls to, and I get so annoyed > I mostly let them go unanswered. > > Had some issues about a month ago trying to register on mail list and it > said my IP was known to be associated with spam and registration was > blocked. So I went on line and my IP number checked out A OK. > just an example > http://www.dnsbl.info/dnsbl-database-check.php > Turned out one of the servers he was using had shut down. so the > program was listing everyone new with the same false positive. The only > way I could get through was on his blog messages that he finally looked > at. He removed the dormant server link and all was well. > > With the honey pot idea, be a good idea to find out if its legal > nowadays, what with the strange new laws (relating to IT and spam) they > are coming up with lately to supposedly legislate safety. > > Saw another article lately cautioning people/businesses to be careful > they have permission to monitor their clients computers, or they could > be caught braking the law. > Ref > > http://www.msp-advisor.com/warning-canadian-msps-falling-victim-new-anti-spam-laws-just-monitoring-clients-systems > > Rolling on the floor laughing;) > So seriously, do you have written permission to monitor your evil > crooks and scammers computer? > Would it seem that there are so many ways a law can backfire from it's > intended purpose? > > Mel > > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > clug-talk@clug.ca > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying >
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