"Mark D. Rasch" is an attorney and author, working in the areas of corporate and government cybersecurity, privacy and incident response. He is currently the Vice President, Deputy General Counsel, and Chief Privacy and Data Security Officer for Science Applications International Corporation/SAIC. From 1983-1992, Rasch worked at the U.S. United States Department of Justice/Department of Justice within the Criminal Division’s Fraud Section. Rasch earned a Bachelor's degree and Juris Doctorate/J.D. in 1983 from State University of New York at Albany.

He famously prosecuted Robert Tappan Morris in the case of United States v. Morris (1991).

Mr. Rasch has been a regular contributor to SecurityFocus on issues related to law and technology and is a regular contributor to Wired Magazine. He has appeared on or been quoted by MSNBC, Fox News, CNN, The New York Times, Forbes, PBS, The Washington Post, NPR and other national and international media.

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Most companies have a policy that says if you use our computers you consent to our monitoring.

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Reverse engineering is not clearly illegal.

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What I would as a parent argue is that I can consent to my kid's monitoring. Hey, it's my kid. I can read their mail, but the federal law doesn't make any distinction. If I'm reading anybody's communications without their consent or without a consent of one party, I'm violating federal law.

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I give out my address to certain Internet places because I need something shipped to me. I don't have a choice.

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They have to put in effective measures right away to ensure the confidentiality [and security] of consumers' credit card numbers and other personal data, ... Egghead.com has a privacy policy that says they will do just that, so they are bound by law to do so.

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I'd be very surprised if the FBI does not catch this guy.

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It's so widespread, ... It's used against many different countries, and law enforcement only has a small handle on it.

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They sell it, and they make money off the personal information that I have given them. And what we are recognizing now on the Internet is that personal information is commodity.

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If I am driving in France, I would be subject to French traffic laws. If I am driving in Australia, Australian traffic laws. If I am driving the information super highway, you don't know whose laws apply.

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