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ping! > -----Original Message----- > From: Shawn McMahon [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2000 10:58 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Port scanning legal > > > On Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 11:59:23AM -0500, John Fraizer wrote: > > > > 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. > > I'm sure they would, but it's a deeply flawed analogy. > > How many ports must be scanned before you deem it an attack? > Is one port > enough? Five? 50? > > If you pick a number here, is that arbitrary, or do you have a valid > logical (and legally-supportable) reason for the number? > > If one port is sufficient, then the act of typing an IP address into a > web browser to see if there's a web server listening is a crime. > >
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