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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
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Lame (a reply by VC3) 2000-12-21
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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
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re: Your headline is misleading 2000-12-22
brm
re: Your headline is misleading 2000-12-20
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Anonymous
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
Legality based on Assumtion 2000-12-19
Tiff
Your headline is misleading 2000-12-20
Giezr
Your headline is misleading 2000-12-22
brm
Your headline is misleading 2007-03-09
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judges decision 2000-12-19
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So if some one knocks on my door... 2000-12-19
garak (at) fastvcd (dot) com [email concealed] (1 replies)
So if some one knocks on my door... 2000-12-20
Giezr
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
A hacker is not a hacker he's a security consultant if he works for you. 2000-12-20
merchant
Interesting 2000-12-20
mickey
American Justice System 2000-12-20
b00tl3g
VC3 is Full of Crap! 2000-12-20
JamesF, web developer
From what I read out of this article, Moulton was simply looking for open ports that could pose a security risk to his client. I don't see any criminal intent in what he did.

Besides, VC3's firewall did it's job and prevented unauthorized access to the system.

I applaud the judge's decision to throw out the anti-hacker suit.

Moulton should seriously go after a slander lawsuit.

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