[157352] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Internet-wide port scans
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Darius Jahandarie)
Tue Oct 16 11:39:29 2012
In-Reply-To: <73969.1350395174@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2012 11:38:52 -0400
From: Darius Jahandarie <djahandarie@gmail.com>
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 9:46 AM, <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu> wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Oct 2012 08:48:47 -0400, Darius Jahandarie said:
>> On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 12:57 AM, Scott Weeks <surfer@mauigateway.com> wrote:
>> > Want to re-write that section or should I respond now? ;-)
>>
>> I always thought it wasn't allowed because of 18 USC 2701, but
>> IINAL, would be happy to hear otherwise :)
>
> If a portscan allows access to stored communications, you have bigger
> problems.
In particular, my understanding was that since you're sending a SYN,
it could very well initiate access to stored communications (although
that may have not been the intent of the SYN). But maybe I'm wrong --
and even if I'm right, this seems like something that probably
wouldn't hold in court very well anyways.
--
Darius Jahandarie
