Thus spake Don Tansey: > <snip>> So: if I had a logging server that centralized the logs, in the > event of > > intrusion, the authorities would just confiscate IT... right?</snip> > > > While I have heard tales of confiscating the perpetrator's machines > I have never heard of the _victims_ machines being lifted. > > Perhaps some of the "authorities" on the list would care to comment? My friend had a machine that was broken into and used to attack some .mil sites. I believe he was in fact required to send the machine (or at least the hard drive) to g-men. Wil -- W. Reilly Cooley wcooleyat_private Naked Ape Consulting http://nakedape.cc LNXS: Get 0.2.0-devel at http://sourceforge.net/projects/lnxs/ irc.openprojects.net #lnxs Mencken and Nathan's Sixteenth Law of The Average American: Milking a cow is an operation demanding a special talent that is possessed only by yokels, and no person born in a large city can never hope to acquire it.
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