Email Disclaimers

[Matthew Carpenter]

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Alan Jackson wrote:

> On Sat, 28 May 2005 21:09:24 -0400 Matthew Carpenter
> <matt at eisgr.com> wrote:
>
>> I agree, but the courts don't seem to. In fact, monitoring
>> emails in transit is still breaking the wiretap laws.
>
>
> Has the law changed? Years ago wiretap laws only applied to "voice"
> communications. Don't even ask about VOIP.
>
>
Oh yes,  they now apply to packet-capture as well.  IIRC, there's some
murky water around grabbing the email at an email hub, although I
don't see why grabbing email off the backup of a mail server would be
covered under wiretap law.  There is another big law (which I'm
summarily forgetting at the moment) which governs non-live-capture.
There are laws around everything electronic these days.  Check out US
Code Title 18.  There are many sub-sections to Title 18.

There is also Pen and Trap which covers sniffing only the header
information.

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