I certainly don't see this as any reason to fear living every day life. However you commented that clean hands don't probe government systems. I beg to differ, I had a couple complaints lodged over portscans. Unfortunately I was using nmap for demographic purposes and it's random scan came across a few .gov and .mil domains. The result was merely an aggresively worded complaint.

The only point I am trying to prove here is that at times, this could 'in theory' be taken too far. Though as you said, I don't anticipate anyone kicking in my door over a couple nmaps.

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