[32936] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Port scanning legal
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick Evans)
Tue Dec 19 11:21:48 2000
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Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 16:19:25 +0000 (GMT)
From: Patrick Evans <pre@pre.org>
To: Jeff Wheat <jeff@cetlink.net>
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On Tue, 19 Dec 2000, Jeff Wheat wrote:
> Isn't that just sweet... So in a nutshell it is *not* illegal for
> kiddies to port scan a network looking for vulnerabilities. It
> would seem to me that such scans would impair the integrity of
> ones networks, or am I just smoking crack?
>
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/15566.html
Scott Moulton, president of Network Installation Computer
Services (NICS), is still facing criminal charges of attempted
computer trespass under Georgia's computer crime laws for port
scanning a system owned by a competing contractor.
The result of the case would appear to be that you can't expect to win
a civil lawsuit claiming damages relating to time spent investigating
a port scan. Nothing more. So yes, you're smoking crack :)
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Patrick Evans - Net bloke, indie kid and lemonade drinker
pre at pre dot org www dot pre dot org
