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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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Things not mentioned in the article 2000-12-20
A Fly on the Wall
1. The suit made claim that Moulton's Port Scan was a 'Denial of Service Attack' that cause a system outage. The President of the company that wrote the software that Mr. Moulton used to port scan the VC3 network wrote a letter stating that nothing malice could be done with the Port Scanning softwar...

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