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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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Good guy getting blamed... 2000-12-19
anon-coward
Apparently, he did not know what was attached

to the network and that's the reason he performed

the scan... talking to the netadmin might have giving

him the proper info that he needed, but scanning

would reveal what actually was on the network...

In any case, as with any crafty sysadmin or

ha...

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