Silly analogy

["Joe Dumass" <joe_dumass () hotmail com>]

Ok, I'd like to make my silly analogy of port scanning...

It's not the benign peeking in windows thing; I mean, come on, it's not THAT 
passive.  I'd liken it to knocking on a door to see if someone's home, and 
then running away if someone answers / opens the door.  Annoying yes.  
Illegal?  I wouldn't think so, unless someone's got a restraining order out 
on you.

But if the door's a-knocking, watch out for flaming bags of dog turds.


> Would you please stop making up stupid anlogies? Thank you. A port scan
> is not telling someone what's inside your house. It tells just which of
> the stores in the basement are open.

> OK, the analogies are getting really silly.

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