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Re: Port Scans are Legal
From: f4 () SILCON COM
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 21:58:59 -0800
Guess since it's not illegal alot of scanners may pop up. I found this one cool online port scanner is at farm9. Check this out http://www.farm9.com The scanner is Nessus based and although they charge for them, I heard you can get a beta account for free. Checks over 750 things. Whisker, nmap,nessus, Sans Top 10. magoo Crist Clark <crist.clark () GLOBALSTAR COM> said:
The question come up here every few weeks, and it looks like any doubt has been erased for now. Port scanning is not illegal in the USA, http://www.securityfocus.com/frames/?content=/templates/article.html%3Fid%
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-- Crist J. Clark Network Security Engineer crist.clark () globalstar com Globalstar, L.P. (408) 933-4387 FAX: (408) 933-4926
Current thread:
- Port Scans are Legal Crist Clark (Dec 18)
- Re: Port Scans are Legal Dan Riley (Dec 18)
- Re: Port Scans are Legal claymore (Dec 19)
- Re: Port Scans are Legal Brett Glass (Dec 19)
- What is a crime, WAS RE: Port Scans are Legal Christopher Byrne (Dec 19)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: Port Scans are Legal ethan preston (Dec 19)
- Re: Port Scans are Legal f4 (Dec 19)
- Re: Port Scans are Legal Dan Riley (Dec 18)