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Re: EXAMPLE: ### xxx Canada detected a penetration attempt from 209.123.x.229. Incident# xxxx

  • From: Christopher A. Woodfield
  • Date: Fri Oct 26 17:22:41 2001

Pinging is not analogous to twisting doorknobs, I think of it more like 
driving past your house - "yep, there's a house there." NMAP scans are 
more like twisting doorknobs to me.

-C

On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 02:52:15PM -0400, Alex Rubenstein wrote:
> 
> 
> Blasphemy.
> 
> There is quite a difference, even in analogy, of some pinging/port
> scanning, and someone twisting my doorknobs.
> 
> If you can't see it, you won't.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Fri, 26 Oct 2001, Dan Hollis wrote:
> 
> > I suppose if you see someone looking into the windows of your home and
> > hear them twisting the doorknobs you don't mind either, you just ignore
> > him and go about your business. After all, they didnt actually break in
> > did they? So, no worries.
> 

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