bugtraq - RE: Does VeriSign's SiteFinder service violate the ECPA?

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Message-ID: <5.0.2.1.0.20030925172659.00c6e6d0@192.168.200.240>
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 17:31:10 +0200
From: Andrea Rimicci <andrea.rimicci@...tasys.it>
To: BUGTRAQ@...URITYFOCUS.COM
Subject: RE: Does VeriSign's SiteFinder service violate the ECPA?

<snip>
 >I'd be careful making legal arguments, but I suspect that if Verisign is
 >doing anything with this data they are justifying it as being "Public" 
and
 >that if people are foolish enough to transmit "Private" data in a 
"Public"
 >medium they can't be held liable<snip>

The real threat behind this is the fact nobody else can do same business. 
They are the only who can access that data on overall network, so this 
service can be an abuse of their position.

Andrea