Port scans legal, judge says

Port scans legal, judge says
Kevin Poulsen, SecurityFocus 2000-12-18

Federal court finds that scanning a network doesn't cause damage, or threaten public health and safety.

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Lame 2000-12-19
Anonymous (1 replies)

Lame (a reply by VC3) 2000-12-20
david.dunn (at) vc3 (dot) com [email concealed] (2 replies)

Extra Lame 2000-12-20
anonymous (1 replies)

Extra Lame (Another reply from VC3) 2000-12-21
david.dunn (at) vc3 (dot) com [email concealed]

Lame (a reply by VC3) 2000-12-21
Dazed and Confused (1 replies)

Lame (a reply by VC3) 2000-12-21
david.dunn (at) vc3 (dot) com [email concealed]

Get a grip 2000-12-19
Chip

Good for him. 2000-12-19

Your headline is misleading 2000-12-19
EJ (4 replies)

re: Your headline is misleading 2000-12-19
ThwartedEfforts (2 replies)

re: Your headline is misleading 2000-12-19
Sleeper (1 replies)

Not neccessarily. Port scanning the perimiter my be akin to looking at the windows, but when you scan further inside, you are coming into my "house".

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re: Your headline is misleading 2000-12-20
Anonymouse (1 replies)

Your headline is misleading 2000-12-19
merk_man (1 replies)

Your headline is misleading 2000-12-19
Ray L (4 replies)

Good guy getting blamed... 2000-12-19
anon-coward

judges decision 2000-12-19
jeff_schmitz (at) enron (dot) net [email concealed]

So if some one knocks on my door... 2000-12-19
garak (at) fastvcd (dot) com [email concealed] (1 replies)

Just don't do it. 2000-12-19
Anonymous Coward (1 replies)

Just don't do it. 2000-12-19
iNDiGO

Port Scan 2000-12-19
Bear

Interesting 2000-12-20
mickey

American Justice System 2000-12-20
b00tl3g

VC3 is Full of Crap! 2000-12-20
JamesF, web developer

Things not mentioned in the article 2000-12-20
A Fly on the Wall

VC3 2000-12-20
Matthew F. Caldwell, CISSP <mattc (at) guarded (dot) net [email concealed]>

Wrong 2000-12-20
William Black (1 replies)

Wrong 2000-12-20
aardwolfe (at) yahoo (dot) com [email concealed]

Scanning illegal? 2000-12-20
vcloud

Doing his job. 2000-12-20
Bob C

Mistakes 2000-12-21
djmad (1 replies)

Mistakes .... 2000-12-22
cert (at) fvsh (dot) de [email concealed]

Intent is really the issue 2000-12-21
Scott Craig <scraig@MIfortune500(fake).com>

Clarifications 2000-12-21
JAG (Just Another Geek)