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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 2000-12-19
EJ
The judge says in *this* case that no direct damage was done from the port scan, so he ruled in favor of the defendant. This particular port scan was done in error, most are done intentionally and many times lead to direct attacks. Port scans *should* be made illegal, the same as peering into someon...

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