Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-security (670 mails)

["Thomas Michael Wanka" <tm_wanka@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Ralf,

first it is not so easy to get the e-mail address of a dialup or even 
ADSL/cable user (at best I can contact his provider), it takes a lot 
of work for a technican while a complaint can be done by one of the 
secretaries.

While it is correct, that currently the police will not care, the 
anti-hacking proposal of the EU Commission implies that "illegal 
access will be considered a serious attack against informationsystems 
even if the access was unintentional", so - if the current timeline 
(implemention into local lawsystem of EU member nations until 2003) 
is correct - the CodeRed/Nimda "victims" are faced with a minimum 
highest prison sentence of 4 years (see "http://cryptome.org/eu-
antihack.htm"). The cybercrime act includes a cooperation agreement 
of all participating countires, including the US. 

So even if they do not care today, they will have to care in 2003, 
and we can show them how much work that means.

mike