Re: Port scanning/illegalities

[Ansgar -59cobalt- Wiechers <bugtraq () planetcobalt net>]

On 2006-04-04 c.s.wright () unn ac uk wrote:
> > > Connecting to a range of ports and closing the connection is nothing
> > > like sending and email nor using a browser.
> >
> > Being not like mail or web doesn't make something illegal.
>
> What makes the act illegal is a violation of property rights.

Again, there is no such violation, otherwise walking through a mall and
looking at the shops in it would be the exact same type of violation.

Regards
Ansgar Wiechers
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