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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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Your headline is misleading 2007-03-09
Sady.Org
If you need a port open for a service like say Mysql but dont want the public to use it configure it with hosts.allow and hosts.deny(Linux) or remove the system off the internet since being on the internet makes your computer public.

I nmap every one for fun, so sue me.

I whois all the time too...

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