[188656] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: how to deal with port scan and brute force attack from AS 8075 ?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Herrin)
Mon Apr 11 15:13:59 2016
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From: William Herrin <bill@herrin.us>
Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2016 15:12:08 -0400
To: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
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On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 2:18 PM, Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com> wrote:
> On Apr 7, 2016, at 07:41 , William Herrin <bill@herrin.us> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 5:36 AM, Bacon Zombie <baconzombie@gmail.com> wro=
te:
>
> I would ignore the portscans since there is nothing wrong with portscanni=
ng
> the Internet.
>
> You might want to check with your lawyer on that. If you
> _intentionally_ port-scan a computer located in Virginia without the
> owner's permission (and do nothing else, just port-scan it) it's a
> class 3 misdemeanor under 18.2-152.1, et seq. That's up to a $500 fine
> for each computer you scan. By comparison, shoplifting is a class 1
> misdemeanor while possession of a schedule V narcotic is another class
> 3.
>
> I think you=E2=80=99re on shaky ground here.
>
> 18.2-152.3 reads:
That's computer fraud. You want =C2=A7 18.2-152.4, computer trespass.
-Bill
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William Herrin ................ herrin@dirtside.com bill@herrin.us
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