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-----Original Message----- From: Shawn McMahon [mailto:smcmahon@eiv.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2000 10:58 AM To: nanog@merit.edu Subject: Re: Port scanning legal
On Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 11:59:23AM -0500, John Fraizer wrote:
Had he likened portscanning someones network to walking
into their back
yard with a ladder, climbing up to the second floor and checking for open windows, perhaps the court would have found differently.
I'm sure they would, but it's a deeply flawed analogy.
How many ports must be scanned before you deem it an attack? Is one port enough? Five? 50?
If you pick a number here, is that arbitrary, or do you have a valid logical (and legally-supportable) reason for the number?
If one port is sufficient, then the act of typing an IP address into a web browser to see if there's a web server listening is a crime.