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I've pinged IP addrs that I later found out were MIL addrs. Nothing happened. Duh! There are a LOT of IP addrs that aren't in the DNS. How is one to know? I don't know about you, but I flunked telepathy in High School and did worse in clarvoyance. In fact, psionics wasn't wasn't something I was generally good at. That's why I went into engineering. Could it be, that is why ping and traceroute were invented? The argument against port-scanning applies equally well to just about every diagnostic tool we use. Be careful what you wish for, we might all get stuck with it. Then, where would we be? > -----Original Message----- > From: Dan Hollis [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2000 11:46 AM > To: Shawn McMahon > Cc: '[email protected]' > Subject: Re: Port scanning legal > > > > On Tue, 19 Dec 2000, Shawn McMahon wrote: > > Better lock me up; I can't count the number of times I've nmap-ed > > somebody just to find out what OS they were using, either > for personal > > curiosity, or as part of an argument. > > Cool. Since you're obviously in the right, how about scanning some > U.S. military networks and letting us all know what OS they are using? > > If you like, I'll start an argument with you so you have the > justification > you need to portscan. > > -Dan > >
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