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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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Wrong 2000-12-20
aardwolfe (at) yahoo (dot) com [email concealed]
Was Mr. Moulton doing a professional job, though?

I work for a security consulting firm. As part of that, we do "Ethical Hacking" or Penetration Attacks. We always verify with the client which IP addresses belong to him and ensure we have (in writing) permission to run port scans and other scans ...

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