~terry
Sat, Feb 21, 1998 (16:22)
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This session will explore the legal and ethical issues arising from
self-help remedies on-line users may consider-or actually engage in-in
reaction to "offensive" behavior. Examples of self-help situations
include the AlterNIC re-routing traffic intended for the InterNIC web
page, crackers posting passwords to Cyber Promotion's machines, the
Usenet Death Penalty being imposed on UUNet for failure to take action
against spammers operating on UUNet's system, denial of service attacks
conducted against PeaceNet's web servers due to "offensive" content, etc.
Clint N. Smith, UUNet Technologies
Ray Everett-Church, Online Industry Consultant
Richard MacKinnon, The University of Texas at Austin, Department of
Government
~terry
Wed, Mar 4, 1998 (07:09)
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Danielle Gallo writes:
The last panel for the Wednesday session addressed Net Vengeance. The
"Kashpureff incident" was addressed and discussed in great detail. The
basic conclusion was that significant collateral damage resulted from
his offense; however, he accepted responsibility and offered
regret. This was not the highlight of the panel. Richard MacKinnon of
the University of Texas at Austin
(http://bertie.la.utexas.edu/depts/gov/home.htm) sparked a discussion
on the proper procedure when disciplining an offending online
user. Since people from all nations participate in computer-mediated
offenses, where and how should they be disciplined? The logical answer
appears to be in their country of residence. MacKinnon suggests,
though, that the offender may be judged by the standards of the group
the offense occurred in. This apparently promotes preservation of the
environment's integrity through punishment based on the environment
and its members.