Re: A question for the list...

Please keep these discussions directed toward the email list, it's supposed to be a general conversation.

Ignorance of the Law is no excuse, but it does not imply a mandatory use of vigilantism as a response. In the case where a landlord is notified and they do nothing, the police and regional prosecutors will have something to say about it. If the neighbor, on the other hand, responds in some manner, even if it is the same response the police would do, they would be guilty of several offenses (and rightly so because it would not be the actions of a "reasonable man"). Again, we use police to enforce the laws, removing the burden (and hopefully the arbitrary reactions of vigilantism) from the general users of society.

---K

Tom Vande Stouwe wrote:
>
> To extend your analogy, If you are the landlord, and a neighbor calls
> you and tells you your tenant had put a drug slot in the front door and
> you do nothing, are you still innocent? Vulnerabilities are all over
> the net, and no on that runs a server can say 'I did not know'. Here we
> say 'Ignorance of the Law is no excuse' and when you accept the
> responsibility for being a landlord (or server admin) you accept the
> responsibility for its proper use within the constraints of 'average
> person' restrictions.
>
> Tom
>
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