Yes, portscanning is quite often a precursor to an intrusion attempt, but most companies (companies are the only people who would care about port-scanning) have a firewall or any other type of protection to stop these invasions.

I'm sure the guy that port-scanned the other guy did it by accident, but even if he hadn't, the firewall would have been enough protection to stop an intruder from accessing anything, and because they already had knowledge of this scan, they could have quite easily tightened their security as to stop this.

Get over it, its a port scan, you have a firewall, don't sue people for crap that means nothing to you. Only in america............

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