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RE: Port scanning legal
From: John Fraizer <nanog () EnterZone Net>
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 11:59:23 -0500 (EST)
On Tue, 19 Dec 2000, Jeff Wheat wrote:
Isn't that just sweet... So in a nutshell it is *not* illegal for kiddies to port scan a network looking for vulnerabilities. It would seem to me that such scans would impair the integrity of ones networks, or am I just smoking crack? Jeff CETLink.Net
The attorney for the plaintiff obviously didn't use the correct analogy when explaining this to the court. Had he likened portscanning someones network to walking into their back yard with a ladder, climbing up to the second floor and checking for open windows, perhaps the court would have found differently. --- John Fraizer EnterZone, Inc Port-scanners and window-checkers will be shot on site.
Current thread:
- Port scanning legal Edward S. Marshall (Dec 19)
- RE: Port scanning legal Jeff Wheat (Dec 19)
- RE: Port scanning legal Patrick Evans (Dec 19)
- RE: Port scanning legal John Fraizer (Dec 19)
- Re: Port scanning legal Shawn McMahon (Dec 19)
- Re: Port scanning legal Alex Rubenstein (Dec 19)
- Re: Port scanning legal Deepak Jain (Dec 19)
- Re: Port scanning legal Leo Bicknell (Dec 19)
- RE: Port scanning legal Jeff Wheat (Dec 19)
- Re: Port scanning legal Valdis . Kletnieks (Dec 19)
- Re: Port scanning legal mdevney (Dec 19)
- Re: Port scanning legal Christian Kuhtz (Dec 19)
- Re: Port scanning legal Todd Suiter (Dec 19)