Re: Piracy

[simon@team-sp.org (Simon Thornton)]

Joe Kohn <joko@crl.com> wrote:

> Some of you may think that "anonymous ftp" means that your anonymity is
> protected. But, it's not. Every one of your keystrokes are saved to a
> logfile when you are connected to an anonymous ftp server. Whether you know
> it or not, your actual e-mail address is also logged.

No, the email address your ftp program is configured to send is logged.
 
> I finally went through the ftp logfile and found out the e-mail addresses
> of everyone who downloaded LemminGS and/or the Convert 3200 source code
> from the adidam site.
> 
> Looking at that list was quite a shock.
> 
> It leaves me in a horrible situation. What am I going to do? What can I do?
> Forgive and forget? Blame it all on Turley? Turn my other cheek? Post a
> list of pirates? 

But you don't have a list of pirates, as such.

What you have is a list of ip addresses and the email addresses that
users decided use as their anon password.

Someone could have logged in as joko@crl.com. The fact that the
associated ip address of that login didn't belong to CRL (in your case)
doesn't automatically mean it was a false email address either. I
could have logged in as simon@example.org but there's no way you
could know what ip addresses that email address is connected to -
hence you couldn't prove that I logged in at all without asking the
ISP that owned the relevant ip for access logs.

Posting a list of email addresses on it's own might be a bit dangerous.

You may well be publicly accusing people of something they didn't do.

Simon.
Who should point out that he only got an IIgs last week and doesn't
actually know who this Turley bloke is, but I've assembled a rough
idea from these threads. Oh well.