J. Oquendo wrote:
On Thu, 12 Mar 2009, Glen Turner wrote:
William Allen Simpson wrote:
A telecommunications carrier releasing a customer's details without their permission, to a non-investigatory third party, without a court order. Hmmm. It's certainly illegal here in Australia. And last I checked wasn't the US firm Hewlett Packard in trouble for hiring people to do just that?
Hey, bad quotation! I'm not from Australia. That's not my writing. Nor did I ever advocate releasing a customer's details -- to anybody. :-( I also disagree with your point about responsibilities of ISPs. Yes, it's true that Microsoft externalized its costs upon its customers. But only the ISPs are in a position to detect the abuse, and that's part of the business. Some of us take network security seriously.