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Hacking tool reportedly draws FBI subpoenas
Kevin Poulsen, SecurityFocus 2004-11-24

The author of the popular freeware hacking tool Nmap warned users this week that FBI agents are increasingly seeking access to information from the server logs of his download site, insecure.org.

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Hacking tool reportedly draws FBI subpoenas 2004-11-29
Anonymous
I assume in this case, the FBI is tracing all the steps an attacker might have taken and the nmap download is just another way to track the attacker but I'm curious, what kind of legal implications could port scanning a network have assuming no other hostile acts were commited?...

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