-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 At 02:07 PM 3/1/2003 -0500, jlewis@lewis.org wrote:
People speed, drive drunk, and run over pedestrians. Should we outlaw cars? Maybe just in California? :)
To use your analogy, you'd have to outlaw computers because they're used to bad things. That's not what's being discussed. Speeding can cause harm to others, thus it's against the law. Same with drunk and reckless driving. So, since probing is often used for malicious intent, should it not also be prohibited or at the very least limited? Since there's no way to tell if a probe is being done for precautionary or exploratory purposes, me being the security paranoid type that I am will always assume the worst and react accordingly. I don't think I'm alone here. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 8.0 iQA/AwUBPmENg6vEtUU05riwEQJp4ACfS9HoxmdPVMf0ugiUkjjAjvr7Jz0AnjvH RIYXLLs6Fm6N/s7ZJcfLLRQa =lMDX -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----