From owner-freebsd-newbies Thu Jun 1 12:53:29 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from Astrovan.cstone.net (mailstop.cstone.net [205.197.102.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E722137BE03 for ; Thu, 1 Jun 2000 12:53:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from highway@cstone.net) Received: from cstone.net (aylee.mrgoodbucks.com [209.145.93.143]) by Astrovan.cstone.net (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-59789U13500L1350S0V35) with ESMTP id net; Thu, 1 Jun 2000 15:46:55 -0400 Message-ID: <3936BF80.77E2301B@cstone.net> Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2000 15:54:40 -0400 From: Sean Michael Whipkey X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: ML Duke Cc: Chad Day , "'freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: System intrusion References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org ML Duke wrote: > They didn't tell him, but I found out for him later, quite by > accident, that computer log files are not admissable evidence in > court (do _not_ take that as legal advice, it's strictly third > hand information, though I have reason to trust the source). According to our contacts when we got hacked, they're only admissible if you can prove they weren't tampered. So, basically, unless you're writing logs to CD-R, you're S.O.L. SeanMike -- SeanMike Whipkey - All Around Geek "It must be difficult being such a visionary." "Not really. You just have to drink a lot." http://www.goats.com/archive/index.html?990420 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message