Assume he is. There are people who believe walking down a

street, trying front door knobs is a cool thing to do.

This is a comedy of stupidity.

Moulton should have advised the net admin in advance

of his port scan. He didn't, additionally, I fail to

see how scanning VC3's firewall helps his mission.

VC3 should have accepted his explanation. They didn't.

Instead they went to the police with inflated claims

of damange. Tracking these things down is part of the

cost of doing business.

This "cracker" (you have to have lived in the south)

judge, doesn't understand that port scans are a common precursor to attacks and VC3 acted irresponsibly if

they had not made the effort.

This whole thing sounds to me like there is more to the

story. I suspect we have two small competing companies,

one trying to discredit the other, who in the end are

a discredit to both themselves and the industry. It's

all backwater southern politics. Is this a great country

or what?

The only serious downside to this episode is that we now

have a judicial record that states that port scans are

legal.

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