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[JD Runyan]

I know someone who runs an application like this.  He says legally the
other machine made a request for service, and your machine is simply
responding to that request.  Needless to say they didn't know that
answer was going to be.  Whether or not that holds up in court, who
knows.  
On Wed, Aug ,  at 07:15:19PM -0500, Ahmik wrote:
> What would be the legal grounds for a program that retaliates against an
> attacking machine once it has determined an attack is going on ... a self
> defence mechanism ... the right to protect property ?
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