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RE: Port scanning legal

  • From: John Fraizer
  • Date: Tue Dec 19 12:05:30 2000 
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.

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John Fraizer
EnterZone, Inc

Port-scanners and window-checkers will be shot on site.