Responding to orders which include a secrecy requirement

[Major Variola (ret)]

At 12:02 PM 8/31/03 -0700, Tim May wrote:
>He said: "An ISP is free to say "anyone requesting a tap is required to

>pay a fee," just as any ISP is free to say that it will handle
>installation of special Carnivore equipment for a certain fee."
>
>A customer of the ISP is certainly _not_ the one requesting a tap. And
>he is certainly not the one installing Carnivore equipment.

If you rent your house, and the renters cause you to get billed
for something they do, you can certainly pass on the cost to
the renter.  If you get a ticket in a rented car, you (not the
car owner) reimburse the owner.  If your ISP gets a lot
of complaints about your usage, they *could* pass on the
cost to you.  An ISP could regard its court-ordered hassles
(or other hassles, eg attacks launched from your node) as your fault.