On Jul 29, 2014, at 10:00 AM, Robert Drake <rdr...@direcpath.com> wrote:
> > On 7/29/2014 12:42 PM, Chris Boyd wrote: >> >> There's probably going to be some interesting legal fallout from that >> practice. As an ISP customer, I'd be furious to find out that my >> communications had been intercepted due to the bad behavior of another user. >> >> --Chris >> > Usually, unless the judge is being super generous, they'll provide a > timestamp and a destination IP. That should be pretty unique unless they're > looking for fraud against large website or something. In the unlikely event > that two people hit the same IP at the same time(window) they would probably > just throw that information out as unusable for their case. > > Usually the window they give is ~ 3-5 seconds so they're pretty specific. This assumes that your log server and theirs are synchronized to an accurate time source within 3-5 seconds (not necessarily a safe assumption in all cases). Further, in a CGN environment, it’s unlikely you would not have multiple customers using the same IP address even down to the single second. Owen
