Re: Port scanning/illegalities

["Jeffrey F. Bloss" <jbloss () tampabay rr com>]

On Wed, 05 Apr 2006 01:59:14 +0200
Ansgar -59cobalt- Wiechers <bugtraq () planetcobalt net> wrote:

> On 2006-04-04 c.s.wright () unn ac uk wrote:
> > > > Connecting to a range of ports and closing the connection is
> > > > nothing like sending and email nor using a browser.
> > >
> > > Being not like mail or web doesn't make something illegal.
> >
> > What makes the act illegal is a violation of property rights.
>
> Again, there is no such violation, otherwise walking through a mall
> and looking at the shops in it would be the exact same type of
> violation.

A seriously flawed analogy. The shops in the mall *want* passers by to
examine their "ports". It's the very reason the displays exist. A
company with outside connectivity on the other hand, is most likely
actively trying to limit that sort of window shopping. ;)

-- 
Hand Crafted on Fri. Apr 07, 2006 at 13:02 

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Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.
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