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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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re: Your headline is misleading 2000-12-22
brm
Such analogies are interesting, but law is not based on analogy. The telecommunications acts, passed during the 1990s, specify what is a crime. Some interpretation is necessary, especially in light of rapidly changing technologies. But analogies based upon homes and windows and peeping just don't ap...

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